Talk:Environmental chemistry
Environment means everything that surrounds us .All the biological and non biological things
surrounding an organism is included in environment. Thus environment is sum total of water, air and
land, inter relationship among themselves and also with the human beings.
Environment keeps changing due to both natural and manmade activities. The natural environment
is self regulating and it is controlled by homeostatic mechanism. Thus any change in any component of
the natural environment is counter balanced by a reciprocal change in some other component. The
important components of the natural environment are atmosphere, soil, water, forest, mountains, wildlife
and biogeochemical cycles. Sometimes the manmade activities may influence the natural environment
directly or indirectly. The important components of manmade environment are industrialization,
urbanization, enhanced agricultural activity, mining activity, construction of dams, power generation -
thermal, hydro or nuclear power plants, space research etc. The natural environment is intimately
interlinked with the components of manmade environment.