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This is an alphabetical list of

. They are loosely divided into causes, effects and mitigation, noting that effects are interconnected and can cause new effects.

Issues

• Greenhouse gas emissions — Coal-fired power station • Carbon dioxide • Methane • Fluorinated gases
• Human population — Biocapacity • climate change • 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
• Flooding • Landslide
• Environmental effects of meat production • Intensive animal farming • Intensive crop farming • Irrigation • Monoculture • Nutrient pollution • Overgrazing • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture • Slash-and-burn • Tile drainage • Zoonosis
• Land pollution • Lawn-environmental concerns • Trail ethics • Urban heat island • Urban sprawl
• Nanotechnology — Impact of nanotechnology
• Natural disasters
• Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management
• Ocean trash — Garbage patch • Ghost net • Washed Ashore
• Water pollution

Effects

• Flooding
• Loss of biodiversity • Habitat destruction • Invasive species
• Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Environmental impact of transport

Environmental impact of aviation

Externalities of automobiles

Environmental impact of shipping (Cruise ships in Europe • Cruise ships in the United States

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• Superfund site (Category only) • Scorched earth • War and environmental law • Unexploded ordnance
• Gender Imbalance in Developing Countries • Sub-replacement fertility levels in developed countries
• Mutation breeding — Genetic pollution
• Synthetic DNA • Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System • Hachimoji DNA
• Genetically modified livestock • Genetically modified food controversies
• Pollution — Nonpoint source pollution • Point source pollution

Ultrafine particles

Light pollution

Noise pollution

Superfund sites

Visual pollution

Ship pollution • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Wastewater

Space pollution — Space debris • Interplanetary contamination

• Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources • Overdrafting (groundwater) • Overexploitation

Over-consumption

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

Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging

Slurry impoundments

California Water Wars • Dead Sea • Lake Chad • Water scarcity

• Volatile organic compounds
• Environmental impact of the coal industry • Exporting of hazardous waste

Mitigation

• Jet fuel tax) • Electric aircraft • High-speed rail
• Conservation
  • In-situ leach
  • Environmental effects of fishing • Marine pollution • Overfishing • Whaling
  • Forests — Clearcutting • Deforestation • reforestation and afforestation • Illegal logging • Trail ethics
  • Natural resources — Resource depletion • Exploitation of natural resources • Steady-state economy • Waste hierarchy
  • Species extinction • Threshold host density • Wildlife trade • Wildlife disease
  • Energy conservation — Alternatives to car use • Efficient energy use • Carfree city • Energy hierarchy • Local food
  • Renewable energy — Renewable energy commercialization
  • Recreation — Protected areas
  • Water conservation
• Disaster mitigation
• Environmental law — Environmental crime • Environmental justice • Polluter pays principle • Precautionary principle • Regulatory capture • Trail ethics
• Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles
  • Environmental aspects of the electric car
  • Hydrogen economy
  • Rail electrification
  • Scrappage program
  • Vehicle recycling
• Phase-out of single-use plastics
  • Shopping trolley (caddy)
  • Bottled water ban — Reuse of bottles
  • Plastic straw ban
• Sustainable agriculture
  • reducitarianism • veganism • vegetarianism
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See also

• Citizen science, cleanup projects that people can take part in.
• Environmental history
• Environmental history of Latin America
• Environmentalism
• Environmental racism
• Environmental racism in Europe
• Index of environmental articles
• List of conservation topics
• List of environmental disasters
• List of environmental organizations
• List of population concern organizations
• List of sustainability topics
• Lists of environmental topics
• List of environmental organisations topics
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

External links

• Environmental Issues and Research Topics | AurumScience.com
• Environmental Issues | GlobalIssues.com
• Human Activities that affect the Environment | The Energy Physics
• Environmental Threats That We are Going to Face | The Energy Physics (causes and effects)
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment