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    The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth and are not artificial. It includes interactions between living species, climate, weather, and resources. The natural environment can be distinguished from components that function as natural systems without human intervention and from universal resources like air, water, and climate that lack clear boundaries. In contrast is the built environment, where humans have transformed landscapes through activities like agriculture and construction, creating artificial environments. While some degree of naturalness exists on a continuum, human impacts like climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss have affected all natural environments.

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    The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth and are not artificial. It includes interactions between living species, climate, weather, and resources. The natural environment can be distinguished from components that function as natural systems without human intervention and from universal resources like air, water, and climate that lack clear boundaries. In contrast is the built environment, where humans have transformed landscapes through activities like agriculture and construction, creating artificial environments. While some degree of naturalness exists on a continuum, human impacts like climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss have affected all natural environments.

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    The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth and are not artificial. It includes interactions between living species, climate, weather, and resources. The natural environment can be distinguished from components that function as natural systems without human intervention and from universal resources like air, water, and climate that lack clear boundaries. In contrast is the built environment, where humans have transformed landscapes through activities like agriculture and construction, creating artificial environments. While some degree of naturalness exists on a continuum, human impacts like climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss have affected all natural environments.

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    Natural environment

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    "Natural force" redirects here. For the music album,


    see Natural Force.

    It has been suggested that Biophysical


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    environment be merged into this article.
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    The natural environment or natural world
    encompasses all living and non-living things
    occurring naturally, meaning in this case not
    artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or
    some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses
    the interaction of all living species, climate, weather
    and natural resources that affect human survival and
    economic activity.[1] The concept of the natural
    environment can be distinguished as components:

    Complete ecological units that function as natural


    systems without massive civilized human
    intervention, including all vegetation,
    microorganisms, soil, rocks, the atmosphere, and
    natural phenomena that occur within their
    boundaries and their nature.

    Universal natural resources and physical


    phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such
    as air, water, and climate, as well as energy,
    radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not
    originating from civilized human actions.

    Land management has preserved


    the natural characteristics of
    Hopetoun Falls, Australia while
    allowing ample access for visitors.

    An image of the Sahara Desert


    from satellite. It is the world's
    largest hot desert and third-
    largest desert after the polar
    deserts.

    In contrast to the natural environment is the built


    environment. Built environments are where humans
    have fundamentally transformed landscapes such as
    urban settings and agricultural land conversion, the
    natural environment is greatly changed into a
    simplified human environment. Even acts which
    seem less extreme, such as building a mud hut or a
    photovoltaic system in the desert, the modified
    environment becomes an artificial one. Though
    many animals build things to provide a better
    environment for themselves, they are not human,
    hence beaver dams, and the works of mound-
    building termites, are thought of as natural.

    People cannot find absolutely natural environments


    on Earth, and naturalness usually varies in a
    continuum, from 100% natural in one extreme to 0%
    natural in the other. The massive environmental
    changes of humanity in the Anthropocene have
    fundamentally effected all natural environments:
    including from climate change, biodiversity loss and
    pollution from plastic and other chemicals in the air
    and water. More precisely, we can consider the
    different aspects or components of an environment,
    and see that their degree of naturalness is not
    uniform.[2] If, for instance, in an agricultural field, the
    mineralogic composition and the structure of its soil
    are similar to those of an undisturbed forest soil, but
    the structure is quite different.

    Composition

    Geological activity

    Water on Earth

    Atmosphere, climate and


    weather

    Life

    Ecosystems

    Biogeochemical cycles

    Wilderness

    Challenges

    Criticism

    See also

    References

    Further reading

    External links

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