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Climate change can contribute to humanitarian, geopolitical, and national security problems.

Strip mining pollutes waterways through __________, which is when sulfide minerals in newly exposed rock surfaces react with oxygen and rainwater t produce sulfuric acid.

One way to use minerals sustainably is to recycle electronic waste like old cell phone, computers, and tables.

Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus decrease the severity of climate change are known as adaptation.

Which energy alternative has the side effect of depriving soil of the nutrients it would receive from the natural decomposition of plant matter, leading to a depletion of soil fertility?

Placer mining where miners sift through material in riverbed deposits by using running water to separate lightweight mud and gravel from heavier minerals of value.

Select all correct answers. The pillars of sustainability are

Select all correct answers. Why have atmospheric carbon dioxide levels risen to levels that are far higher than it has been in more that 800,000 years.

Select all correct answers. Select the environmental impacts from coal extraction.

This is the term for the systematic change in Earth’s climate, such as temperature, precipitations, and storm intensity.