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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.
Sea-water bodies situated at the coast, but separated from the sea by land spits or similar land features. Coastal lagoons are open to the sea in restricted spaces.
Industry:Environment
Single-celled micro-organisms. Some are useful in pollution control because they break down the organic matter in water and land. Other bacteria may cause disease.
Industry:Environment
The high concentration of air pollutants due to temperature inversion and low winds. It may give rise to serious, and sometimes fatal, illness. See also inversion.
Industry:Environment
Agricultural practices that produce high output per unit area, usually by intensive use of manure, agrochemicals, mechanization and so on. See also green revolution.
Industry:Environment
Controlling of oil spills through use of an agent to trap the oil and sink it to the bottom of the body of water in which the agent and the oil are to be biodegraded.
Industry:Environment
Layer of clay or some other highly impermeable material installed over the top of a closed landfill to prevent entry of rainwater and minimize production of leachate.
Industry:Environment
Layer of the upper atmosphere extending upwards from about 80 kilometres above the earth's surface in which atoms tend to be ionized by incoming solar radiation.
Industry:Environment
Final placement of waste in or on the land in a controlled or uncontrolled way according to different sanitary, environmental protection and other safety requirements.
Industry:Environment
Framework for indicators for sustainable development adapted from the pressure-state-response framework. See also framework for indicators of sustainable development.
Industry:Environment
Micro-organism that can cause disease in other organisms. It may be present in sewage, run-off from animal farms, swimming pools, contaminated shellfish and so forth.
Industry:Environment
