environmental stress
Nature under strain
Environmental stress refers to pressure or strain placed on organisms, ecosystems, or materials by surrounding conditions.
For living things, this includes factors like extreme temperatures, drought, pollution, or habitat disruption: The coral reef showed signs of environmental stress from rising ocean temperatures.
The term also applies to how physical environments affect human health and psychology, or how external conditions degrade materials and structures.
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- global warmingRising planetary temperatures
- carbon footprintTotal greenhouse gases produced
- acid rainPolluted atmospheric moisture falling
- plastic pollutionEnvironmental harm from synthetics
oil spill · toxic runoff · soil compaction · disease outbreaks · urban sprawl · invasive species · habitat destruction · radiation exposure · industrial waste · light pollution · biodiversity loss · water contamination · crowding · noise pollution · greenhouse gas emissions · air quality · deforestation · drought
- stress typesdistress
- environmental psychologymental maps, cognitive maps, wayfinding, spatial perception, sense of place
- eco-anxietyeco-anxiety, climate anxiety, climate grief, climate fear, eco-grief
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- stressstrain, overload, overwhelm, stressors, distress
- nature therapyecotherapy, forest bathing, nature therapy, outdoor therapy, wilderness therapy