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Who warned of the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment in the 1962 book Silent Spring?

environment

[en-vahy-ruhn-muhnt, -vahy-ern-] / ɛnˈvaɪ rən mənt, -ˈvaɪ ərn- /


NOUN
earth's system of natural resources
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"To retain companies in France and in Western Europe we need to diversify these office landscapes of the last century, because no-one wants to work in such an environment any longer," says Guice.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

“We’re all in this very creative environment, and we believe that art should be part of everyday life,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

However, the children have reportedly adapted to their new environment, allowing their parents to devote additional time to commitments outside the family home.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

It is an important component of cell membranes, the thin outer layers that surround cells and help regulate how they interact with their environment.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Chief Executive Chuck Robbins said that organizations are turning to Cisco to help them scale, secure and optimize their environments for use in the agentic AI era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The incidents have intensified calls for authorities to strengthen monitoring of school feeding schemes, improve hygiene standards and ensure safer learning environments for children.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Cosm’s domed, 87-foot-diameter wraparound screen surrounds audiences and represents today’s hunger for collective, so-called immersive experiences that place attendees in fantastical environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

She said it was "wholly unacceptable" that children taken into care could still find themselves in environments "where they remain exposed to the very dangers they should be protected from".

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

The immediate appeal of Lamarck’s idea was that it offered a reassuring story of progress: all animals were progressively adapting to their environments, and thus progressively slouching along an evolutionary ladder toward perfection.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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