Environmental Pollution Effects on Living Beings
Keywords:
Environment Pollution, Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Water Pollution, Living BeingsAbstract
The present paper shows that Environmental Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the surroundings; which brings about changes that affect our normal lifestyles adversely. Pollutants are the key elements or components of pollution which are generally waste materials of different forms. Pollution disturbs our ecosystem and the balance in the environment. With modernization and development in our lives pollution has reached its peak; giving rise to global warming and human illness.
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