What are the Bad Effects of Agricultural Practices on the Environment?
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1) Farming can cause soil erosion: \ne.g. Deforestation removes roots holding soil and allows extensive wind and water damage. \n\n2) Farming causes desertification: \nThis is when a desert gradually spreads to the surrounding areas of semi-desert, making them true desert! \n\n3) Chemical pollution and habitat destruction are major problems: \nCareless use of fertilisers pollutes rivers and lakes, making them green, slimy and horrible. \n\n4) Irrigation can cause environmental problems:\ncreating dams involves flooding large areas. Wildlife habitats are destroyed and people have to be resettled! \n\nHope I helped!
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Deforestation is number one, it reduce the ability of an area to absorb carbon dioxide and thereby resulting into more polution, it result into soil errosions, which result into flooding and mudslide.
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Depending on the location of landfall, there can be numerous effects on the environment. In general, you can expect severe damage to trees and plants which will affect wildlife habitat for some time. Plant life is easily defoliated and trees uprooted during high wind/rain events.\n\nAnother possible impact could be pollution to the surface and groundwater. Storm surge and heavy rains can easily cause water treatment plants to overflow and contaminate fresh water sources. Near by agricultural lands could also cause water contamination if the become flooded. Pollution would impact fish and other animals that depend on the fresh water supply.\n\nCoastal areas, including coral reefs and sand quality, are usually devastated by hurricanes too. Damage to corals can cause an imbalance to coastal ocean aquatic life.\n\nThere are many affects of hurricanes on the environment and people, but above just describes a few. Doing a key word search for "coastal hurricane impacts" or "hurricane impact on ecosystem" might give you more information
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Environmental effects\n\nModern mining companies in many countries are required to follow strict environmental and rehabilitation codes, ensuring the area mined is returned to its original state, or an even better environmental state than before mining took place. Past mining methods have had, and methods used in countries with lax environmental regulations continue to have, devastating environmental and public health effects. The result can be unnaturally high concentrations of some chemical elements over a significantly wider area of surface. Combined with the effects of water and the new 'channels' created for water to travel through, collect in, and contact with these chemicals, a situation is created where mass-scale contamination can occur.\n\nEnvironmental issues can also include erosion, formation of sinkholes, dangerous sites such as deep holes in child friendly communities, destruction of the environment, loss of biodiversity, and contamination of groundwaters by chemicals from the mining process and products.\n\nSome examples of environmental problems associated with mining operations are:\n\nAshio Copper Mine, Ashio, Japan was the site of substantial pollution at end of the nineteenth century \nBerkeley Lake, an abandoned pit mine in Butte, Montana that has filled with water which is now acidic and poisonous. \nScouriotissa, a copper mine in Cyprus that has been abandoned. Contaminated dust blows off this site. \nTar Creek, an abandoned mining area in Picher, Oklahoma that is now an Environmental Protection Agency superfund site. Water in the mine has leaked through into local groundwater, contaminating it with metals such as lead and cadmium. \n\nAlthough such issues have been associated with some mining operations in the past, modern mining practices have improved significantly and are subject to close environmental scrutiny.
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Losing any plant can drastically affect the local environment.  Loss of the phlox (which grows on sandy soil) is bound to have serious erosion consequenses as the roots of the phlox bind the soil together.  Insects will lose a source of nectar and so the food chain will suffer further up.  \nYou may find the site belwo of interest...;
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Of course its bad... I mean it harms our lungs and it has carbon monoxide which can kill us by taking oxygen.\n\nAir pollution also causes Acid Rain and it harms the Ozone Layer. So with Air Pollution our lovely Earth's being destroyed.
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Polution, and destroying trees and stuff. Basically living, destroys the envirment.
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Go to the Defra website at http://www.defra.gov.uk/ and you will find all the answers you want to know about arable farming.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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wind farming: eco ben.= no c02 emissions during energy production, no noise pollution, easy to maintain\n\nside effects=  unsightly and spoils the countryside, kills birds of prey ie eagles
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In many ways for instance reducing cutting trees in the tropical forest area or replanting after cutting trees,differentiating agricultural zone from industrial zone, making zone of grazing lands.Above all reducing the industrial wastage links to the sea and polluting the air.
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Try a country in Africa \nAnalysis of the impacts of climate change suggests that agro-ecological systems are the most vulnerable sectors. Agriculture in low latitude developing countries is expected to be especially vulnerable because climates of many of these countries are already too hot. Further warming is consequently expected to reduce crop productivity adversely. These effects are exacerbated by the fact that agriculture and agro-ecological systems are especially prominent in the economies of African countries and the systems tend to be less capital and technology intensive. Predictions of impacts across regions consequently suggest large changes in the agricultural systems of low latitude (mostly, developing) countries.
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(1) The term desertification is  applied to land degradation in dry lands.\n\n(2) It is  resulting mainly from adverse human impact. “Land” in these terms includes soil and local water resources, the land surface and vegetation or crops, while degradation implies a reduction of resource potential.\n\n(3) There are several causes of desertification.\na) Fuelwood crisis\nb) Overcultivation \nc) Poor management of irrigation schemes\nd) Mechanical techniques \ne) Erosion made from Poor land use pattern\nf) Negative results of deforestation
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Yes, we have affected and been affecting our Mother Earth largely!\nEvery road disturbs the natural ways of animal movements.\nOur use of certain chemicals destroy sections of the atmosphere.\nCreation of cement cities lowers the natural beauty!\nNuclear tests are changing regions.\nProfessional fishing eliminates kinds of sea life.\nand so on!
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Organic farming produces much less food per area of land. If every farmer produced organically over 1/2 of the world's population would starve to death. That is the biggest reason. \n\nAside from that producing organic food is expensive. Many farms simply can not produce organically, the soil is so poor that without the addition of synthetic fertilisers they won't grow crops at a level that make sit worthwhile.\n\nThen there is the ethical viewpoint. Because organic production requires so much more farmland it also requires that we cut down more forests to turn into farmland. Many people object to organic farming because it is environmentally far more damaging than conventional farming.
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Here is the problem; the soil in a rain forest is surprisingly not very good. Most of the loam and organic matter is up in the canopy of the forest, so when folks clear the land for farming they usually destroy the land. It might give crops for a couple of years, but then it fails. By carefully choosing crops farmers could probably grow good soil over time, but most indigenous farmers don't do that. Good farming practices usually involve crop rotation, growing deciduous trees mixed in for loam. Growing Beans and clover to fix nitrogen into the soil. The main problem with destroying the rain forest is that we are drastically cutting the biodiversity of land based life on Earth. Once a species is gone it is gone. \n\nAnother problem that agriculture presents anywhere but which is exacerbated in a rain forest is nitrogen and phosphorous pollution from fertilizer. I am not saying farmers should not use fertilizer, but it needs to be managed better than it is currently.
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Honestly, the effects are endless. I'm currently working on this topic for my Master's (that what I should be doing right now) and when you really start to delve into the study of it, it's really quite disgusting because it affects everything we rely on to live.  But to sum it up, when the land is polluted, it really leads to pollution, destruction, and loss of everything else. The pollution makes it way into our water sources, kills plants, and  consequently, that is one cause that leads to the loss of animal species.  Polluted land is often treated with chemicals to "clean it up" that ends up in the soil and poisons our food sources.  The issue really is complex, but I encourage you to study it further.  You won't look at this world the same.
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you could do something like, the effects of pollutants on soil, then to show your experiment try growing plants in different types of soil, have one with normal soil, your control, then others with different pollutants, oil, chemicals, garbage\nHopefully this could help