Environmental Pollution

 
   Environmental pollution is one of the most critical threats faced by our planet in the present day scenario. This is a global issue, which is seen commonly in all countries, including the third- world countries, irrespective of their Developmental statuses. 

• What is environmental pollution? 

Environmental pollution is when human activities introduce contaminants in the environment, thereby leading to the disruption of  the routine processes causing,  causing irreversible changes in the environment. The agents causing pollution is called POLLUTANTS. Pollutants are the substances occurring in nature or created because of  extraneous human activities. Pollutants can also be forms of energies  let out in the environment. Based on the pollutants  and the pollution caused in the components of the environment,   the  environmental pollution may be classified as follows:

•  Air pollution

•Water pollution

•Soil/ land pollution

• Noise pollution

•Radioactive pollution

•Thermal pollution

environmental pollution

  Any natural resource found in the environment, when used at a higher rate than the ability of its restoration, leads  to depletion, thereby causing environmental pollution. This will lead to the declination of the environmental quality and is evidenced by loss of biodiversity, loss of flora and fauna, the introduction of new diseases  and stressful life in the human population, etc.