Environmental Topic Choices

Environmental Issues

• Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Urban Heat Islands • Flooding
• Conservation

Ecosystems — Anoxic waters • Biodiversity • Biosecurity • Coral bleaching • Edge effect • Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Illegal dumping • In-situ leach

Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • By-catch • Cetacean bycatch • Gillnetting • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Environmental effects of fishing • Overfishing • Marine pollution • Whaling

Forests — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging

Natural resources — Resource depletion • Exploitation of natural resources

Species — Endangered species • Genetic diversity • Habitat destruction • Holocene extinction • Invasive species • Poaching • Pollinator decline • Species extinction • Threshold host density • Wildlife trade • Wildlife disease

• Energy — Energy conservation • Efficient energy use • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Environmental impact of the energy industry • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing • Renewable energy • Renewable energy commercialization •
• Environmental degradation — Eutrophication • Habitat destruction • Invasive species • Soda lake
• Environmental health — Air quality • Asthma • Birth defect • Developmental disability • endocrine disruptors • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Electromagnetic fields • Electromagnetic radiation and health • Indoor air quality • Lead poisoning • Leukemia • One Health • Sick Building Syndrome • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Environmental issues with war - Agent Orange • Depleted Uranium •Military Superfund site (Category only)•War and environmental law • Scorched earth
• Environmental law - Environmental crime • Environmental justice • Polluter pays principle • Precautionary Principle
• Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies
• Hydrology - Environmental impacts of reservoirs • Tile drainage • Hydrology (agriculture) • Flooding• Landslide •
• Intensive farming — Environmental effects of meat production • Irrigation • Monoculture • Nutrient pollution • Overgrazing • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture • Slash and burn • Tile drainage
• Land use — Built environment • Desertification • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction • Land degradation — Land pollution • Urban sprawl
• Soil — Alkali soil •Brownfield • Superfund sites • Residual Sodium Carbonate Index • Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination • Superfund
• 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 • Overpopulation in companion animals • Tragedy of the commons • Gender Imbalance in Developing Countries • Sub-replacement fertility levels in developed countries• Water crisis
• Ozone depletion — CFC • Biological effects of UV exposure
• Pollution — Nonpoint source pollution • Point source pollution • Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution • Interplanetary contamination

Water pollution — Acid rain • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Eutrophication• Groundwater recharge • 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 • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing

Air pollution — Atmospheric particulate matter•Environmental impact of the coal industry • Smog • Tropospheric ozone • Indoor air quality • Volatile organic compound • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing

• Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources • Overdrafting Overexploitation

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 • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing • Mountaintop removal mining • Slurry impoundments

Water (depletion) — Anoxic waters • Aral Sea • California Water Wars • Dead Sea • Lake Chad • Water pollution • Water crisis • Wastewater

• Toxicants — Agent Orange•Asbestos• Beryllium•Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) • Cyanide • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Explosives •Dioxin • Toxic heavy metals • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Herbicides • Hydrocarbons • Perchlorate • Pesticides • •PBDE • Persistent organic pollutant • PCB • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons • Radioactive contamination • Volatile organic compounds • Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
• Waste — Electronic waste • Great Pacific Garbage Patch • Incineration • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Medical waste • Landfill • Leachate • Toxic waste •Environmental impact of the coal industry • Exporting of hazardous waste• Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing