Environmental Degradation

Definitions
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife.
Environmental degradation means the exploitation of natural environment to such an extent that it is not possible to regenerate itself to its original condition.

Natural Environment
The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof.
The natural environment, is a set of relationship between all living and non-living things.
BIOTIC ABIOTIC

BIOTIC:-That environment comprising living organisms, which interact with each other and their abiotic environment. Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem. ABIOTIC:-All physical and nonliving chemical factors, such as soil, water, and atmosphere, which influence living organisms. Abiotic components are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment. Abiotic phenomena underlie all of biology.

Types of Degradation

Deforestation

Emission Types of Degradation

Desertification

Erosion

Extinction

Deforestation
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to agriculture or urban use.

Desertification
Desertification is the degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas due to various factors: including climatic variations and human activities.

Extinction
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

Emission Emission of air pollutants Emission of greenhouse gases, Emission of poisonous gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation.

Erosion Erosion is the process by which materials are removed from the surface and changed into something else.