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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Liquid or gas used to reduce the heat generated by power production in nuclear reactors, electric generators, various industrial and mechanical processes, and automobile engines.
Industry:Environment
Qualitative functions of natural non-produced assets of land, water and air (including related ecosystem) and their biota. There are three basic types of environmental services.
Industry:Environment
Water-saving technique of surface irrigation through pipes made of plastics. It delivers the water drop by drop to plants through tiny holes, and prevents waterlogging of soils.
Industry:Environment
Gash cut into a slope of soil or loose, unconsolidated sediment by the concentration of rainfall run-off in a channel. It represents one of the most destructive forms of erosion.
Industry:Environment
Modification of the environment of one or more organisms by their activities, including reaction and co-action (liberation of oxygen, for example, by water plants in an aquarium).
Industry:Environment
Pollution caused by reactions in air already polluted by primary emissions (from factories, automobiles and so forth). An example of secondary air pollution is photochemical smog.
Industry:Environment
SNA term. An economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.
Industry:Environment
Enclosure where cattle are kept. Feedlots are a potential hazard to the environment as they cause water pollution, and degradation of the lands and plants receiving polluted water.
Industry:Environment
Shallow pond, usually human-made, where sunlight, bacteria and oxygen interact to help purify waste water. The term is synonymous with sewage oxidation pond and stabilization pond.
Industry:Environment
Widespread climatic cooling caused by the probable effect of nuclear warfare on such atmospheric conditions as would reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface.
Industry:Environment
