Environmental issues,concerns and problems
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The document discusses numerous environmental issues, concerns, and problems including: 1) Climate change, ocean deoxygenation, coral bleaching, and pollution from activities like poaching, intensive farming, and urban sprawl which are degrading the environment. 2) Issues related to energy usage like ensuring access to renewable and efficient sources of energy. 3) Public health problems caused by environmental factors such as electromagnetic radiation, toxins from activities like mining, and genetic engineering technologies and their potential impacts.
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Environmental issues,concerns and problems
- 2. ANOXIC WATER Hypoxia Ocean deoxygenation - Areas of seawater or freshwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen
- 5. -Significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years - a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average Global warming Global dimming CLIMATE CHANGE
- 7. CONSERVATION Coral bleaching Poaching - An ethic of resource use, allocation and protection
- 11. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION Eutrophication Habitat destruction -Deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable
- 13. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Electromagnetic radiation Lead poisoning - Branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health
- 15. GENETIC ENGINEERING Genetic pollution Genetically modified food controversies - Direct human manipulation of an organism’s genomeusing modern DNA technology
- 17. INTENSIVE FARMING Irrigation Slash and burn - An agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, labour, or heavy usage of technologies
- 19. LAND DEGRADATION Land pollution Soil erosion -Process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or more combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land
- 21. LAND USE Urban sprawl Habitat destruction - Involves management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements.
- 23. NANOTECHNOLOGY Nanotoxicology Nanopollution - Deals with developing materials, devices or other structures processing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers
- 25. NUCLEAR ISSUES Nuclear meltdown Nuclear weapons - Nuclear power debate is about the controversy which has surrounded the deployment and use of nuclear fission reactors to generate electricity from nuclear fuel for civilian purposes
- 27. Overpopulation in companion animals Tragedy of the common OVERPOPULATION - Condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat
- 29. OZONE DEPLETION CFC -Steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth’s stratosphere much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth’s polar regions
- 31. POLLUTION Water pollution Air pollution - Introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem.
- 33. RESOURCE DEPLETION Logging Mining - Economic term referring to the exhaustion of raw materials within a region
- 35. TOXINS Pesticides Herbicides - A poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms
- 37. WASTE Electronic waste Medical waste - Unwanted or useless materials
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