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environmental

[ en-vahy-ruhn-muhn-tl, -vahy-ern- ]

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adjective

of or relating to the totality of things, conditions, influences, cultural forces, etc., that surround and shape the life of a person or a population:
Investigators in the study will examine possible associations between aggressive prostate cancer and exposures to environmental stressors such as discrimination, early-life adversity, and segregation.
Ecology. of or relating to all the external conditions, such as air, water, minerals, and other organisms, that surround and affect any given organism, often specifically relating to human interaction with these conditions:
She took 11 lake samples to identify the fish communities present there and the defining environmental factors, like dissolved oxygen, pH, and vegetation.
Agriculture is now a dominant force behind many environmental threats, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of land and fresh water.
of or being art that surrounds the viewer or involves the viewer’s participation, often on a grand scale and outdoors:
Our programs include an exhibition of global art, public lectures on birds, and a collaborative outdoor installation of environmental art.

What they believe impacts economic policy, foreign policy, education policy, environmental policy, you name it.

All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.

The island faces an environmental challenge of huge proportions.

Although tough environmental controls were put in place in 2000, enforcement has been haphazard.

It has allowed the project to bypass normal due diligence and environmental impact assessments.

Such an attitude favors an easy escape from both the labor of character building and the obligations of environmental salvation.

Those individualistic tendencies growing out of periodic changes of the environment may be called environmental instincts.

The crabs and worms conceivably are two of the environmental features inhospitable to the rats.

Therefore it is never superfluous to study the individuals environmental conditions, surroundings, all his outer influences.

The color pattern changes in the course of development, and the shade of color changes in response to environmental conditions.

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