Human impact on the environment refers to changes to biophysical environments and to ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans. Modifying the environment
The impact of human expansion on ecosystems, highlighting how industrialization and deforestation for urban development lead to significant habitat loss and a severe decline in bird populations.
Chart published by NASA depicting CO2 levels from the past 400,000 years.
Lacanja burn
Fishing down the food web
Holocene extinction
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The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activity during the current geological epoch, impacting diverse families of plants and animals, including mammals
Two men next to a pile of American bison skulls awaiting industrial processing and conversion into fertilizer in the United States, in 1892.
The dodo became extinct during the mid-to-late 17th century due to habitat destruction, overhunting, and predation by introduced mammals. It is an often-cited example of a human-driven extinction.
The moa (here reconstructed in a mock hunt) went extinct in the mid 15th century due to overhunting and habitat destruction by the Māori people; prior to the arrival of humans a century earlier, New Zealand was uninhabited by mammals
A diagram showing the ecological processes of coral reefs before and during the Anthropocene