Air pollution is the introduction of chemical, particulate matter or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to human or other

living organism, or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment, into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a thread to human health as well as to the earths ecosystem.

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies

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la!es, rivers, oceans and groundwater ". Water pollution occurs when pollutant are discharged directly on indirectly into water bodies without ade#uate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Water pollution affects is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to natural biological communities.

Soil pollution is caused by presence of xenobiotic chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment . This type contamination arises from the rupture of underground storage tan!s, application pesticides, percolation of contaminated surface water to subsurface strata, oil and fuel dumping, leaching wastes from landfill or direct discharge of industrial wastes to the soil.

$eforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the lands is thereafter converted to a non forest use. %xample to of deforestation or include urban conversion The of forestland agriculture use. term

deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all tree in an area removed. &owever in temperate machine climate, the removal of all trees in an area is correctly described as.