Tuesday, December 16, 2008

List of Evnironmental issues

This is a list of environmental issues that are due to human activity. These articles relate to the anthropogenic effects on the natural environment.

* Climate change — Global warming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas

* Conservation — Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Species extinction • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Whaling • Holocene extinction event • Invasive species

* Dams - Environmental impacts of dams

* Energy - Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use • Renewable energy commercialization

* Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution

* Intensive farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation • Monoculture • Environmental effects of meat production

* Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification

Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination

* Nanotechnology — Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution

* Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power

* Overpopulation — Burial

* Ozone depletion

* Pollution — Air pollution • Light pollution • Noise pollution • Thermal pollution

Water pollution — Acid rain • Eutrophication • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Water crisis

* Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources

Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence
Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Overfishing • Shark finning
Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging
Mining — Acid mine drainage • Mountaintop removal mining

* Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Dioxin • Heavy metals • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxics use reduction • Toxic waste

* Urban sprawl


* Waste — E-waste • Waste disposal incidents


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