List of environmental issues

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

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

• Conservation — Species extinction • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Holocene extinction event • Invasive species • Poaching • Endangered species

• Dams — Environmental impacts of dams

• Energy — Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use • Renewable energy commercialization

• Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies

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

• Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification

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

• Land use — Urban sprawl • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction

• Nanotechnology — Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution

• Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Radioactive waste

• Overpopulation — Burial

• Ozone depletion — CFC

• Pollution — Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution

Water pollution — Acid rain • Eutrophication • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Water crisis • Marine debris • Ocean acidification • Ship pollution • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Wastewater

Air pollution — Smog • Tropospheric ozone • Indoor air quality • Volatile organic compound • Particulate matter • Sulphur oxide

• Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources

Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence • Over-consumption

Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Overfishing • Shark finning • Whaling

Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging

Mining — Acid mine drainage • Mountaintop removal mining • Slurry impoundments

• Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Dioxin • Heavy metals • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxic waste • PCB • Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification

• Waste — E-waste • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Landfill • Leachate • Recycling • Incineration
• Wildfires

[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

[edit] External links

• 7 Environmental Problems That Are Worse Than We Thought | EarthFirst.com