Extinction risk from climate change

The extinction risk of climate change is the risk of species becoming extinct due to the effects of climate change.

Environmental impact of meat production

The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world.

Human extinction

In futures studies, human extinction is the hypothetical complete end of the human species.

Sjätte massutdöendet

Sjätte massutdöendet är ett pågående massutdöende av arter under den nuvarande geologiska epoken Holocen, vars sista period också benämns Antropocen, som ett resultat av…

Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

Sustainability

Sustainability is the ability to exist constantly. In the 21st century, it refers generally to the capacity for the biosphere and human civilization to coexist.

Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat…

Global warming

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report concluded, "It is that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed…

Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

Global issue

Informally, a global issue is any issue that adversely affects the global community and environment, including possibly in a catastrophic way, including environmental…

List of extinction events

Ethics of eating meat

In most societies the great majority of people eat meat when they can get it, but increasing controversy and debate has arisen over the ethics of eating animals.

Environmental vegetarianism

Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism or eating a plant-based diet based on the indications that animal-based industries are environmentally…

Global warming

Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns.

William J. Ripple

Ripple heads the Trophic Cascades Program at Oregon State University, which carries out several research initiatives such as the Aspen Project, the Wolves in Nature…

Defaunation

Defaunation is the loss of animals from ecological communities. The growth of the human population, combined with advances in harvesting technologies, has led to more…

Human impact on the environment

Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources.

Human impact on the environment

Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources.

Human impact on the environment

The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity.

Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.

World population

In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.62 billion as of May 2018.

Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to…

Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species.

Holocene extinction

The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene…

Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) is a state in which there are too many people, consuming too much, for the environment to sustain (with food, drinkable…

Environmental impact of meat production

The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world.

Global catastrophic risk

A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization.