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 • Effects of the automobile on societies

• Conservation — Genetic erosion • Holocene extinction event • Invasive species • Species extinction • Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Whaling • Beached whale

• 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

      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 — Waste disposal incidents

      See also

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      • 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