List of environmental issues

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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 • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Urban runoff • 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

[edit] See also

• Environmentalism
• List of conservation topics
• List of conservation issues
• List of environmental disasters
• List of environmental organizations
• Lists of environmental topics
• List of sustainability topics