Environmental degradation is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment that is considered harmful or undesirable. Air pollution is a major global issue compared to water and soil pollution, which have more local effects. Common sources of air pollution include household combustion, motor vehicles, industrial facilities, and forest fires, which emit particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Both outdoor and indoor air pollution pose major health risks like strokes, heart disease, lung cancer and respiratory illness. Preventing air pollution requires reducing emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities.

1. Environmental
Degradation

2. What is Environmental
Degredation?
It is defined as any change or disturbance to
the environment perceived to be deleterious
or undesirable.

3. Among the environmental degradation, air
pollution is the global significance, unlike
water and soil pollution which are of local or
regional effect.
Air pollution affects the human life, flora and
fauna, climatic change to a great extent. Thus,
it is very important to measures the pollutant
materials

4. What causes air
pollution?
Household combustion devices, motor
vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are
common sources of air pollution. Pollutants of
major public health concern include
particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone,
nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.

5. Effects of air pollution
From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside
the home, air pollution poses a major threat to
health and climate. Ambient (outdoor) air
pollution in both cities and rural areas is causing
fine particulate matter which result in strokes,
heart diseases, lung cancer, acute and chronic
respiratory diseases.

6. Preventing air pollution
Air pollution refers to any physical,
chemical or biological change in the air.
It is the contamination of air by harmful
gases, dust and smoke which affects
plants, animals and humans drastically.
There is a certain percentage of gases
present in the atmosphere.