Human impact on the environment (or anthropogenic environmental impact) refers to changes to biophysical environments and to ecosystems, biodiversity...

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during June 5–16, 1972. When the United Nations General Assembly...

military to fight the animals in the ocean. We are gradually winning this war to exterminate them." – Daniel Pauly, pioneer on human impacts on global fisheries...

(PAT) is the mathematical notation of a formula put forward to describe the impact of human activity on the environment. I = P × A × T The expression...

are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. Further, these issues can be caused by humans (human impact on the environment) or they can be natural...

Human impact on the nitrogen cycle is diverse. Agricultural and industrial nitrogen (N) inputs to the environment currently exceed inputs from natural...

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, often shortened to Rio Declaration, was a short document produced at the 1992 United Nations "Conference...

integrating human cultures with the rest of the environment. Different aspects of human interaction with the natural environment are studied by environmental...

increasingly large impact on the environment. Deserts are expanding, while heat waves and wildfires are becoming more common. Amplified warming in the Arctic has...

led to a human impact on the environment. In 1950, around the world, 764 million people lived in urban areas. By 2014, it was 3.9 billion. The change was...