Environmental degradation
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Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinct
More than eighty years after the abandonment of Wallaroo Mines (Kadina, South Australia), mosses remain the only vegetation in some areas of the site's grounds.
Deforestation in Europe, 2018. Almost all of Europe's original forests have been destroyed.
Ethiopia's move to fill the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's reservoir could reduce Nile flows by as much as 25% and devastate Egyptian farmlands.
Water pollution due to dairy farming in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Extinction
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Extinction is the termination of a species via the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recov
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is an example of a recently extinct species.
Palaeotherium is an example of an extinct genus that is only recorded from fossil records before the existence of hominids.
External mold of the extinct Lepidodendron from the Upper Carboniferous of Ohio
The dodo of Mauritius, shown here in a 1626 illustration by Roelant Savery, is an often-cited example of modern extinction.