Global Environment Issues

Our environment is changing with passage of time and this poses serious hazards to all living beings including the human beings. The human activity is further hastening this environmental change and this is gravely impacting the environmental stability. Therefore, it is very important to understand this change as well as the consequences of this environmental change. Global warming, rapid climate change, loss of biodiversity and ozone layer depletion are some of the important global environment issue that need to be addressed urgently. These environmental issues are just a fraction of a large number of environmental concerns that are threatening the survival of life on earth. These environmental problems are piling up and it is very imperative for the political class of the world to address these various issues efficiently otherwise the doomsday is not far. This review discusses the following important environmental issues, namely, global warming, rapid climate change, loss of biodiversity, human health hazards and ozone layer depletion.