- Industry: NGO
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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.
Type of ecosystem dominated by lichens, mosses, grasses and dwarf woody plants. It is found at high latitudes (arctic tundra) or high altitudes (alpine tundra). The arctic tundra possesses a permanently frozen subsoil, usually very wet.
Industry:Environment
Formerly World Wildlife Fund, it aims to conserve nature and ecological processes by preserving biodiversity, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful use of resources and energy.
Industry:Environment
Land (and water) area of the planet or particular area required for the support either of humankind's current lifestyle or the consumption pattern of a particular population. It is the inverse of the carrying capacity of a territory.
Industry:Environment
Effective killing by chemical and physical processes of all organisms capable of causing infectious diseases. Chlorination is the disinfection method commonly employed in sewage treatment processes, water supplies, wells and swimming pools.
Industry:Environment
Uncultivated open land, covered with vegetation, often consisting to a considerable degree (25 per cent or more) of ligneous and semi-ligneous plants (heather, furze and so forth), as well as herbaceous plants of generally low pastoral value.
Industry:Environment
Relatively inert oxide of nitrogen produced as a result of microbial action in the soil, use of fertilizers containing nitrogen, burning of timber, and so forth. This nitrogen compound may contribute to greenhouse and ozone-depleting effects.
Industry:Environment
All water naturally open to the atmosphere, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries and so on. The term also covers springs, wells or other collectors of water that are directly influenced by surface waters.
Industry:Environment
Soil conservation measure consisting of the planting of tall-growing and low-growing crops in alternately arranged straight and long but relatively narrow parallel strips, laid across the direction of prevailing wind regardless of land contour.
Industry:Environment
Technology applied or measure taken to reduce pollution and/or its impacts on the environment. The most commonly used technologies are scrubbers, noise mufflers, filters, incinerators, waste-water treatment facilities and composting of wastes.
Industry:Environment
Type of forest found in areas with high regular rainfall and no more than two months of low rainfall, and consisting of a completely closed canopy of trees that prevents penetration of sunlight to the ground and discourages ground-cover growth.
Industry:Environment
