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

• 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