Environmental Pollution : Challenges and Remedies

Authors

  • Prem Prabhakar  Department of Chemistry, Paliwal P G College, Shikohabad, Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Keywords:

Morbidity, Sustainability, Tuberculosis, Extinction.

Abstract

Almost every human activity that results in the degradation or depreciation of the quality of the natural environment is regarded as pollution. Environmental pollution is not a new phenomenon, yet it remains the worlds’s greatest problem facing humanity, and the leading environmental causes of morbidity and mortality. In 2015 it was predicted that ill-health caused by pollution accounted for 9 million premature deaths, which is more than three times the number of deaths from malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis put together (Landrigan et al., 2017). Widespread interference of human related activities have resulted in major problems including environmental pollution, land degradation, global warming/climate change, paucity of potable water supply and biodiversity loss. These issues have directly affected the quality and sustainability of the ecosystems. In addition, these activities have resulted in loss of habitats resulting in mass extinction of species which in itself is a matter of great concern.

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Prem Prabhakar, " Environmental Pollution : Challenges and Remedies, International Journal of Scientific Research in Chemistry(IJSRCH), ISSN : 2456-8457, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp.31-41, January-February-2023.