A number of specific environmental issues can impede human health and wellness. These issues include chemical pollution, air pollution, climate change, disease-causing microbes, lack of access to health care, poor infrastructure, and poor water quality.

Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.

Human beings's settlement pattern, economic opportunities, lifestyle, social life etc. Eg: natural disasters cause severe loss of life and property. Eg: earth has different land forms this also influences the patterns of lifestyle. Eg: temperature, rainfall, sun etc determine the type of agriculture.

Some human activities that cause damage (either directly or indirectly) to the environment on a global scale include population growth, overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation.

The most positive human impact on the environment is the reversal of environmental destruction through remedial actions. These include recycling, conserving water, improving energy efficiency, cordoning off sensitive ecosystems, planting trees, and passing environmental protection laws.

The human environment is concerned with people who live in different environments, their activities and the environmental features which they have created. We also look at the interdependence of people in the local community-this is developed from the infant classes looking at those who help us in the locality.

• Tip 1 – Watch your energy consumption
• Tip 2 – Go vegetarian for a day
• Tip 3 – Recycle old technology
• Tip 4 – Conserve resources
• Tip 5 – Do some gardening
• Tip 6 – Buy in season and avoid packaging
• Tip 7 – Travel smart

The natural environment gives us a wealth of services that are difficult to measure in dollars. Natural areas help clean our air, purify our water, produce food and medicines, reduce chemical and noise pollution, slow floodwaters, and cool our streets. We call this work 'ecosystem services.

The majority of air pollution is the result of human activities. For example, increased fossil fuel combustion from motor vehicles, industrial factories and power plants all pump large quantities of air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, ozone and nitrous oxides, into the atmosphere.

Actions such as moving to higher ground to avoid rising sea levels, planting new crops that will thrive under new climate conditions, or using new building technologies represent adaptation strategies.

Human health and well-being are intimately linked to the state of the environment. Good quality natural environments provide basic needs, in terms of clean air and water, fertile land for food production, and energy and material inputs for production.

We depend completely on nature for essential, life-sustaining services – clean air and water, a stable climate, food – yet our activities are having an increasingly dramatic and detrimental effect on wildlife and ecosystems, putting not just wild species but also our own survival at risk.

These issues include chemical pollution, air pollution, climate change, disease-causing microbes, lack of access to health care, poor infrastructure, and poor water quality.

Climate change over the past 100 years. Global surface temperature has been measured since 1880 at a network of ground-based and ocean-based sites. Over the last century, the average surface temperature of the earth has increased by about 1.0o f.

As a society, we depend on to do many things, to purify the air so we can breathe properly, sequester carbon for climate regulation, cycle nutrients so we have access to clean drinking water without costly infrastructure, and pollinate our crops so we don't go hungry.