Environment

The environment is something you are very familiar with. It's everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, and much more.

In recent years, scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution, deforestation, acid rain, and other problems that are dangerous both to the earth and to ourselves. These days, when you hear people talk about “the environment”, they are often referring to the overall condition of our planet, or how healthy it is

Environment may refer to:

• Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism where pollution is important
• Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
• Environment (magazine)
• Environments (series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds

It may also refer to:

• Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
• Knowledge environment, social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery
• Natural environment, all living and non-living things
• Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
• Physical environment, in ecology

In computing:

• Desktop environment, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer
• Environment variables, the dynamic set of variables defined in a process
• Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
• Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

Environmental may refer to:

• Environmental art
• Environmental determinism
• Environmental epidemiology
• Environmental health
• Environmental movement
• Environmental policy
• Environmental psychology
• Environmental quality
• Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment

Other

• Environment (film), a 1917 silent film
• Environmentalist (short film) thai short film festival 2013