List of environmental issues -IAS-CSAT-GS

List of environmental issues

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

• Anoxic waters — Anoxic event • Hypoxia • Ocean deoxygenation • Dead zone

• Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation

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

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

• Environmental degradation — Eutrophication • Habitat destruction • Invasive species

• Environmental health — Air quality • Asthma • Electromagnetic fields • Electromagnetic radiation and health • Indoor air quality • Lead poisoning • Sick Building Syndrome

• Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies

• Intensive farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation • Monoculture • Environmental effects of meat production • Slash and burn • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture

• 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 • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear and radiation accidents • Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management.

• Overpopulation — Burial • Water crisis • Overpopulation in companion animals • Tragedy of the commons

• Ozone depletion — CFC

• Pollution — Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution • Nonpoint source pollution • Point source pollution

Water pollution — Acid rain • Eutrophication • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Water crisis • Marine debris • Microplastics • Ocean acidification • Ship pollution • Wastewater • Fish kill • Algal bloom • Mercury in fish

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

• Reservoirs — Environmental impacts of reservoirs

• Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources • Overdrafting

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 • Toxic heavy metals • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxic waste • PCB • Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification

• Waste — E-waste • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Medical waste • Landfill • Leachate • Recycling • Incineration • Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Opportunity

When Opportunity Knocks

by CYRUS A.B. »

A young man wished to marry the farmer's beautiful daughter. He went to the

farmer to ask his permission. The farmer looked at him and said, "Son, go

stand out in that field. I'm going to release three bulls, one at a time. If

you can catch the tail of any one of the three bulls, you can marry my

daughter." 

The young man stood in the field awaiting the first bull. The barn door opened

and out came the biggest, meanest looking bull he had ever seen.. He decided

that one of the next bulls had to be a better choice than this one, so he ran

over to the side and let the bull pass through. 

The barn door opened again. Unbelievable. He had never seen anything so big

and fierce in his life. It stood pawing the ground, it eyed him. Whatever the

next bull was like, it had to be a better choice than this one he thought. He

ran to the fence and let the bull pass through. 

The door opened a third time. A smile came across his face. This was the

weakest bull he had ever seen. This one was his bull, he said to himself. As

the bull came running by, he positioned himself just right and jumped at just

the exact moment. He threw his hands to grab..... But alas..... The bull had no

tail. 

Moral: Life is full of opportunities. Always grab the first one.