"virgin environment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a place that has not been touched or impacted by human activity. For example, "The untouched mountain provided a virginal environment for the local wildlife."
Regarding settlement of the New World, the putative set of adaptations that arose in response to global climate change corresponding to the Last Glacial Maximum and the potentially enormous amount of local adaptations that occurred while the first settlers occupied the virgin environments of the continent are both events that influenced Asian and American populations, respectively.
In so keenly relished a near-virgin environment, the diverse "unmastered women" blend into the moonlit trees like guilty phantoms in Hawthorne.
Another social determinant of vector borne disease is human encroachment upon previously uninhabited environments, virgin forests and jungles.
"As 3-D printing becomes more mainstream, we're just adding more virgin plastic to our environment.
The food would be organic, but it would be devastating for the environment by destroying virgin rain forest and requiring lots of fossil fuel to transport the bananas to New York.
Individual males from each of the six populations were paired sequentially with virgin females, from both predation environments in both their native river and one of the two foreign rivers (Table S1).
In all these cases, increasing productivity of limited natural resources brings benefits in terms of commerce - in the form of higher production - and environment - by using less virgin natural resources.
However, when transformed epithelial cells are transplanted into cleared fat pads of virgin and parous hosts, the hormonal environment of the virgin hosts is significantly more favorable for growth of the transformed cells than that of the parous animals [ 36].
Iddalgashinna's natural environment shares much with the virgin rainforest on which it borders - superficially, it looks like a beautiful green jumble.
