Problems
- Human overpopulation — Biocapacity • Carrying capacity • Exploitation • Industrialisation • I = PAT • Land degradation • Land reclamation • Optimum population • Overshoot (population) • Population density • Population dynamics • Population growth • Projections of population growth • Total fertility rate • Urbanization • Waste • Water conflict • Water scarcity • Overdrafting
- Hydrology - Environmental impacts of reservoirs • Tile drainage • Hydrology (agriculture) • Flooding• Landslide •
- Intensive farming — Environmental effects of meat production •Intensive animal farming • Intensive crop farming• Irrigation • Monoculture • Nutrient pollution • Overgrazing • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture • Slash and burn • Tile drainage
- Land use — Built environment • Desertification • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction • Land degradation — Land pollution •Lawn-environmental concerns•Urban heat island• Urban sprawl
- Nanotechnology — • Implications of nanotechnology
- Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear and radiation accidents • Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management
Effects
- Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Urban Heat Islands • Flooding
- Environmental degradation — Habitat destruction • Invasive species
- Environmental health — Air quality • Asthma • Birth defect • Developmental disability • endocrine disruptors • Environmental impact of the coal industry•Environmental impact of nanotechnology • Electromagnetic fields • Electromagnetic radiation and health • Indoor air quality • Lead poisoning • Leukemia•Nanotoxicology •Nature deficit disorder •One Health • Sick Building Syndrome • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
- Environmental issues with energy — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Environmental impact of the energy industry • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing •
- Environmental issues with war - Agent Orange • Depleted Uranium• Explosive remnants of war•Military Superfund site (Category only)•Scorched earth • War and environmental law • Unexploded ordnance
- Overpopulation — Burial • Overpopulation in companion animals • Tragedy of the commons • Gender Imbalance in Developing Countries • Sub-replacement fertility levels in developed countries•
- Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies
- Pollution — Nonpoint source pollution • Point source pollution •
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- Air pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing • Indoor air quality • Smog • Tropospheric ozone • Volatile organic compound Atmospheric particulate matter CFC • Biological effects of UV exposure
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- Light pollution • Visual pollution •
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- Noise pollution •
- Soil pollution — Alkali soil •Brownfield • Residual Sodium Carbonate Index • Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination • Superfund• Superfund sites
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- Space debris • Interplanetary contamination * Ozone depletion
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- Water pollution — Acid rain •Agricultural runoff •Algal bloom • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Eutrophication• Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing• Eutrophication • Fish kill •Groundwater contamination• Groundwater recharge • Marine debris • Marine pollution •Mercury in fish• Microplastics • Ocean acidification • Ocean dumping • ocean pollution •Oil spills• Soda lake •Ship pollution • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Wastewater•
- Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources • Overdrafting (groundwater) •Overexploitation
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- 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 • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing • Mountaintop removal mining • Slurry impoundments
- Water (depletion) — Anoxic waters • Aral Sea • California Water Wars • Dead Sea • Lake Chad • Water scarcity
- Toxicants — • Agent Orange•Asbestos• Beryllium• Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification • Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) • Cyanide • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Explosives • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Herbicides • Hydrocarbons • Perchlorate • Pesticides • PBDE • Persistent organic pollutant • PBBs • PBDEs • Toxic heavy metals • PCB • Dioxin • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons • Radioactive contamination • Volatile organic compounds
- Waste — Electronic waste • Great Pacific Garbage Patch • Illegal dumping • Incineration • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Medical waste • Landfill • Leachate • Toxic waste • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Exporting of hazardous waste
