- 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.
Disposal of waste by burning at sea on specially designed incinerator ships. Ocean incineration includes the burning of organo-chlorine compounds and other toxic wastes that are difficult to dispose of.
Industry:Environment
Organic material such as humus or compost that facilitates the passage of water through soil and the distribution of fertilizer material and also provides a better medium for the growth of soil bacteria.
Industry:Environment
Waste generated in the fuel cells of a nuclear reactor. It is typically stored at reactor sites and nuclear fuel reprocessing plants. In the absence of shielding, it represents a serious health threat.
Industry:Environment
Water that is remote from surface influences and has a relatively small temperature gradient. In eutrophic lakes, this lower layer of water has no oxygen and is loaded with toxic and decaying materials.
Industry:Environment
All solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; electricity; uranium; steam and hot water; and the traditional fuels such as fuelwood, charcoal, vegetal and animal wastes. See also new and renewable energy sources.
Industry:Environment
Application of a pesticide by rapidly heating the liquid chemical so that it forms very fine droplets resembling smoke or fog. The process may be used to destroy mosquitoes, blackflies and similar pests.
Industry:Environment
Absorption by the earth's atmosphere of most of the X-rays and ultraviolet and infrared radiation emitted by the sun, except visible light. It prevents the earth's surface from becoming too hot.
Industry:Environment
Large particles drawn into the atmosphere by high-velocity exhaust gases. Because of their size, these particles do not remain suspended in the atmosphere and become deposited on the surrounding terrain.
Industry:Environment
Positive and negative associations between species that favour or inhibit mutual growth and evolution of populations. It may take the form of competition, predation, parasitism, commensalism or mutualism.
Industry:Environment
Measure of the extent to which a community, structure, service or geographical area is likely to be damaged or disrupted, on account of its nature or location, by the impact of a particular disaster hazard.
Industry:Environment
