We each have "spheres of environments" like the layers of an onion.
Instead, they go through a biogeochemical cycle with substantially long residence times in the various spheres of the environment.
Landfills can be regarded as a particular type of contaminated land that has a potential to directly and indirectly pollute all of the four main spheres of the environment which are the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and eventually adversely impact the biosphere.
In recent years, proponents of environmental justice have extended that principle into the sphere of the environment, driven by a recognition that increasing scarcity of and conflict over natural resources requires new approaches for securing a peaceful future [see "Global Resources: Abuse, Scarcity, and Insecurity," EHP 112 A168 A175 (2004)].
There are similar arguments in the spheres of education, the environment, and culture.
Well beyond the intersecting spheres of energy and the environment, where the shifting policies have been apparent for months and crystallized last week in the proposal for a relaxation of regulations to encourage energy development, the scaffolding of a new regulatory framework is taking shape.
The communication environment is shared with external traffic sources that are out of the sphere-of-control of the RT architecture.
Head of environment, and lead environment blogger.
It did not, Mr. Kerry said, though it helped that his natural inclinations led him into foreign affairs and the environment, and not health care, education and civil rights, the Kennedy spheres of influence.
Their emphasis has often been on the relation of markets to other spheres of life; individuals are often seen as socially embedded and their decisions as shaped by their social environment.
