a catalog of dissolution

Environmental Dissolution

The world unmade: habitat loss, ice melt, soil erosion, and species extinction.

• Habitat LossThe dissolution of ecosystems: when the places where species live are destroyed or fragmented.
• Ice MeltThe literal dissolution of frozen water, and what it means when the world's ice turns to ocean.
• Soil ErosionThe dissolution of the ground beneath our feet: how topsoil disappears faster than it forms.
• ExtinctionThe permanent dissolution of a species: when the last member of a kind of life dies.