EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The extraction of minerals from nature often creates imbalances, which adversely affect the environment. The key environmental impacts of mining are on wildlife and fishery habitats, the water balance, local climates & the pattern of rainfall, sedimentation, the depletion of forests and the disruption of the ecology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major environmental issues involved in mining are air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The environmental challenges from coal mining include coal mine accidents, land subsidence, damage to the water environment, mining waste disposal and air pollution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Climate change is the big environmental problem that humanity will face over the next decade, but it isn’t the only one. We’ll take a look at some of them-from water shortages and loss of biodiversity to waste management-and discuss the challenges we have ahead of us.

Detailed explanation-5: -The list of issues surrounding our environment go on, but there are three major ones that affect the majority of them overall: global warming and climate change; water pollution and ocean acidification; and loss of biodiversity.