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
Jan 7, 2009
List of Evnironmental issues
Labels: Issue and How to solve
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