• relating to the environment in 2012. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues. A list of the world's 100...
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    The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is...
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    bombarded with neutrons in a lab. Plutonium in the environment has several sources. These include: Atomic batteries In space In pacemakers Bomb detonations...
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    cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane...
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    Retrieved 22 January 2012. "Geoportale Nazionale" [National Geoportal] (in Italian). Ministry of Environment, Italy. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 3 January...
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    PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a structured project management method and practitioner certification programme. PRINCE2 emphasises dividing...
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  • In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating...
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  • Hosted by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro from 13 to 22 June 2012, Rio+20 was a 20-year follow-up to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development...
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  • relationships. The business environment has been defined as "the totality of physical and social factors that are taken directly into consideration in the decision-making...
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    directly or indirectly by humans. Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society (as in the built environment) is causing severe effects including global...
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    hurricane that became the fourth-longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record. As the fourteenth tropical cyclone and named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane...
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    the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing...
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    2012. "Nova Scotia - Weather Warnings - Environment Canada". Environment Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 31 October 2012....
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    conservation. The ministry was formed in 2001 from the sub-cabinet level Environmental Agency established in 1971. The Minister of the Environment is a member...
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    Since the mid-20th century, plutonium in the environment has been primarily produced by human activity. The first plants to produce plutonium for use in Cold...
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  • The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1996 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment...
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    government entities, and represents the primary United Nations outreach day supporting the environment. First held in 1974, it has been a platform for raising...
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  • from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2016. "iPad 2 Environmental Report" (PDF). Apple and the Environment. Apple Inc. March 2012. Archived...
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    The environment of China (Chinese: 中国的环境) comprises diverse biotas, climates, and geologies. Rapid industrialization, population growth, and lax environmental...
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    The 2012 United States presidential election was the 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Incumbent Democratic President...
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    The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation...
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    the Government of Romania. It was created in 1991. The institution was known as the Ministry of Environment and Waters Management (Romanian: Ministerul...
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    for Environment (DG ENV) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the Environmental policy of the European Union. In 2010...
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    The term built environment refers to human-made conditions and is often used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, public health, sociology...
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    The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (German: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz...
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  • 2012 documentary film directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan. The film was premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 9, 2012...
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  • The 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference was the 18th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework...
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    The secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, also referred to as the environment secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government...
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    Desktop Environment 3 (KDE 3) is the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment (after that called KDE Software Compilation). It was one of the two...
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  • Terra Firma for £1.4 billion. In May 2012 Focsa Services and Waste Recycling Group were merged and rebranded "FCC Environment". Allington Quarry Waste Management...
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