- 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.
Relatively small confined area for the controlled feeding of animals. It tends to concentrate large amounts of animal wastes that cannot be absorbed by the soil and hence may be carried to nearby streams or taken by rainfall run-off.
Industry:Environment
Trade name for daminozide, a pesticide that makes apples redder, firmer and less likely to drop off trees before growers are ready to pick them. It is also used, to a lesser extent, on peanuts, tart cherries, grapes and other fruits.
Industry:Environment
Class of hydrocarbons of high molecular weight emitted as a result of processes occurring in motor vehicles and other processes of incomplete combustion. PAHs are toxic in high concentrations, and some are believed to be carcinogenic.
Industry:Environment
Environmental protection activity including the construction, maintenance and operation of sewerage systems, and waste-water and sewage sludge treatment plants, as well as the restoration of polluted surface waters and similar efforts.
Industry:Environment
Environmental protection activity involving the construction, maintenance and operation of installations for the decontamination of polluted soils, the cleansing of groundwater and the protection against the infiltration of pollutants.
Industry:Environment
Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters. The decomposition or breakdown of dead algae generally affects water quality adversely by reducing levels of dissolved oxygen. Algae serve as food for fish and small aquatic animals.
Industry:Environment
Catch and landing are frequently used as synonyms for the volume of fish brought ashore. In some cases fish catch is defined as the volume of fish taken out of the sea, differing from fish landing by the volume of fish discarded at sea.
Industry:Environment
Measure of timber stocks, gross volume in cubic metres per hectare over bark of free bole (from stump or buttresses to crown point of first main branch) of all living trees more than (usually) 10 centimetres in diameter at breast height.
Industry:Environment
Forest composed primarily of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season. Such forests are found in three middle-latitude regions with a temperate climate characterized by a winter season and year-round precipitation.
Industry:Environment
Potentially toxic metals used in industrial processes, for example, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc. They may damage plant and animal life at low concentrations and tend to accumulate in the food chain.
Industry:Environment
