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Environment Issues                            416,690                390,760

 

  

Acid mine drainage                                268                      276

 

Acid rain                                               2,270                   2,060

  

Air pollution                                          5,220                    4,680

 

Blast fishing                                               10                         9

 

Bottom trawling                                        20                       24

 

Burial                                                      2,390                   2,370

 

Chlorofluorocarbons                               563                       549

 

Clearcutting                                                59                        84

 

Climate Change                                   11,000                 10,400

 

Conservation                                        27,600                28,600                            

 

Consumer capitalism                                    7                         8

 

Consumerism                                            804                    837

 

Coral bleaching                                         233                     208  

 

Cyanide fishing                                           23                       20

 

Dams +Environmental Impact                  74                     85                   

 

Dams                                                        2600                3,040

 

DDT                                                         1,560                  1,520

 

Deforestation                                           2,760                  2,870

 

Desertification                                           749                      676

 

Dioxin                                                         480                    421

 

E-Waste                                                     137                     140

 

Energy                                                163,000              158,000

 

Energy conservation                             3,070                  2,940

 

Energy efficiency                                  4,030                  4,200     

 

Eutrophication                                      1,170                  1,080    

 

Exploitation of natural resources            38                        49

 

Fishing                                                   7,240                   7,200

 

Fossil fuels                                             4,290                   4,310

 

Genetic engineering                              1,870                  1,660   

 

Genetic pollution                                        24                      24

 

Ghost nets                                                     3                         4

 

Global warming                                     7,550                  7,600

 

Greenhouse gas                                     3,660                  3,480

 

Habitat destruction                                  486                       417 

 

Habitat fragmentation                             274                       256

 

Heavy metals                                         1,850                   1,660  

 

Herbicides                                              2,180                     2,000

 

Holocene extinction                                      1                          1

 

Illegal logging                                              45                          40

 

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

                                                                        2                           2

 

Intensive farming                                        53                         59

 

Invasive species                                       1,530                    1,390

 

Irrigation                                                 6,890                      6,390

 

Land degradation                                      229                       214

 

Land pollution                                             70                          81

 

Light pollution                                           208                         193

 

Litter                                                        2,970                     2,780

 

Logging                                                  12,900                     11,600

 

Marine pollution                                          86                          71

 

Meat production environmental effects      8                            7

 

Mining                                                    22,300                   20,600     

 

Monoculture                                               411                        403

 

Mountaintop removal mining                       6                            5

  

Nanopollution                                                 2                            2    

Nanotechnology                                      3,140                     2,930

 

Nanotoxicology                                              9                           10

 

Noise pollution                                            295                           251

 

Nuclear fallout                                             41                           45

 

Nuclear issues                                              27                           30

 

Nuclear meltdown                                        28                            28

 

Nuclear power                                        3,060                      2,660

 

Ocean dumping                                           58                           81

 

Oil spills                                                      588                          542

 

Overgrazing                                               491                         471

 

Overpopulation                                          670                          559

 

Ozone depletion                                      1,060                          942

 

Pesticides                                                 6,270                       5,670

 

Planned obsolescence                                  58                          61  

 

Pollinator decline                                          2                            1

 

Pollution                                                19,800                     17,500

 

Renewable energy                                  3,530                        3,480                          

 

Renewable energy commercialization    136                           141                           

 

Resource depletion                                   322                         313

 

Sea level rise                                           1,580                      1,410  

 

Shark fishing                                                2                             2

 

Soil                                                        29,800                    27,700               

 

Soil conservation                                      582                         540  

 

Soil contamination                                     82                           83

 

Soil erosion                                             1,880                       1,660                                                       

 

Soil salination                                               3                             3

 

Soil salinity                                                 83                             82                                 

 

Species extinction                                    276                          232  

 

Toxic waste                                              603                            539                                 

 

Toxics use reduction                                   6                              5

 

Toxins                                                    6,030                       5,620            

 

Urban runoff                                            165                            158   

 

Urban sprawl                                           540                          498 

 

Waste                                                    33,100                     29,600       

 

Waste disposal incidents                           60                            69

 

Water crisis                                                73                              68  

 

Water pollution                                     1,980                       1,800  

 

Whaling                                                     237                            201

 

The list of Environment Issues used in this section of the  Scientific Supercourse is derived from Wikipedia's List at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_issues

 

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