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environment
Sign in to saveAlso known as biophysical environment, environment of Earth, global environment
surrounding of an organism or population
Research
3,175,503 papers- The Built Environment and Childhood Obesity.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024
- The built environment and child obesity: A review of Australian policies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2024
- An Overview of How the Built Environment Relates to Children's Health.Current environmental health reports · 2023
- School built environment and children's health: a scientometric analysis.Reviews on environmental health · 2025
- Decoding physical environment's role in protein phase transition.Advances in colloid and interface science · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- industry
- Subclass of
- environment
- Has part
- natural environment
- Image
- Kompalniaielektrownia.jpg
- Said to be same as
- milieu
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- history of topic
- environmental history
- different from
- lifestyle
- Commons category
- Environment
- topic's main category
- Category:Environments
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- partially coincident with
- situation
- P8168
- La Scoumoune
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Encyclopedic overview
Land management has preserved the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls, Australia while allowing ample access for visitors. An image of the Sahara Desert from satellite. It is the world's largest hot desert and third-largest desert after the polar deserts.
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity. The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished as components:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “environment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.