"a peculiar environment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or place that is strange, unusual, or difficult to comprehend. Example: She found herself in a peculiar environment, where nothing was as it seemed.
Either way, a peculiar environment awaits you: one in which almost nothing can be taken for granted.
Mr. Hamermesh's analysis of the beauty effect relied on an eclectic set of data, drawn from a door-to-door charity solicitation, a Dutch television game show and — in what will no doubt strike some as a peculiar environment in which to measure the effects of attractiveness — nearly four decades of American Economic Association elections for executive office.
The International Space Station is the first space human outpost and over the last 15 years, it has represented a peculiar environment where science, technology and human innovation converge together in a unique microgravity and space research laboratory.
Dr. Condeelis argues that the peculiar environment inside a tumor fools some of the cells into thinking they're inside an embryo.
Finally, since data for the application of drugs via the local blood supply and distribution in this peculiar environment is missing, a promising concept for prolongation of nephrogenesis is awaiting solid implementation.
It's a peculiar competitive environment.
But the arrest opened a window into a peculiar work environment, populated by thousands of animals, driven researchers and the technicians who perform the lab's menial but essential work.
Over the course of 52,000 generations, the bacteria have adapted to their peculiar environment.
Loren thrives in this peculiar environment, but he never forgets his aunt, and eventually he tries to find her.
Still, TMP's peculiar environment is most likely why Monster rose above 30,000 other job sites, besting those backed by venture capitalists and newspapers.
In the fetus, especially, we can't deduce the presence or absence of consciousness from its anatomical development alone; we must also consider the peculiar environment in which fetuses live.
