Environment

Articles about ecosystems, sustainability and environmental issues.

Articles in this category: 187 Updated: April 29, 2026 Page 3 / 4

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Keystone species

Keystone species: definition, roles, examples, and conservation

Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

Landfill

Landfill: design, environmental effects, and management

Least concern

Least Concern (IUCN Red List category)

Light pollution

Light Pollution: Causes, Effects, and Ways to Reduce It

Logging

Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)

Medieval Warm Period

Miss Earth

Miss Earth: International Environmental Beauty Pageant

Mixed forest

Mixed forest (temperate): structure, ecology, and human uses

Monoculture

Monoculture: practice, effects, history and alternatives

National Parks of Costa Rica

Nuclear or Not?

Oil spill

Oil spill: causes, impacts, response, and prevention

Osage Plains

Osage Plains: the Tallgrass Region of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas

Over-harvesting

Over-harvesting: causes, impacts and approaches to sustainable use

Overfishing

Overfishing: causes, consequences, and responses

Overpopulation

Ozone depletion

Ozone depletion: causes, consequences, and recovery

Paris Agreement

Paris Agreement

Paris Agreement: global framework to limit climate change

The Paris Agreement is a global climate pact under the UNFCCC that seeks to limit warming well below 2°C, strengthen adaptation and mobilize climate finance through nationally dete

Peat swamp forest

Persistent organic pollutant

Persistent organic pollutant (POP): overview, properties, sources, and impacts

Peter Hitchcock (environmentalist)

Peter Hitchcock: Australian environmentalist and World Heritage advocate

Plastic pollution

Plastic pollution: causes, impacts, and responses

Pollutant

Pollutant

Pollutant: causes, types, effects and mitigation

Overview of pollutants: what they are, main categories and sources, environmental and human health effects, chemistry of secondary pollutants, and approaches to control and regulat

Pollution

Prairie restoration

Preservation

Preservation: protecting objects, environments, and cultural heritage

Product stewardship

Radioactive contamination

Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste: types, management, history, and risks

Ramsar Convention

Ramsar Convention (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance)

Recycling

Recycling: processes, materials, benefits and practical guidance

Recycling symbol

Reforesting

Reforesting: restoring trees and plant communities

Renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy: sources, development, uses, and key distinctions

Overview of renewable energy: principal sources, historical development, characteristics, common uses, environmental benefits, and challenges of integrating renewables into modern

Renewable energy commercialisation in Australia

Renewable energy commercialization

Commercialization of Renewable Energy: Technologies, Markets and Deployment

Renewable energy commercialization in the United States

Renewable energy in developing countries

Renewable energy in developing countries: resources, benefits and challenges

Renewable resource

Salt evaporation pond

Sanitation

Sanitation: systems, health impacts, history and common technologies

Scrap

Scrap: recyclable materials, processing, and role in industry

Scrubber

Scrubbers: industrial systems for removing airborne pollutants

Season

Sewage