Environmental pollution is - the introduction into the environment or the appearance of her new, not usually characteristic of physical, chemical and biological agents, agents that have adverse impacts on natural ecosystems and human beings. There is a natural pollution, resulting from powerful natural processes without any human influence, and anthropogenic resulting from human activities, sometimes on the scale of the impact of superior natural.

Different types of pollution are divided into three main ones: physical, chemical and biological. Physical contamination due to the change in the physical, temperature, energy, wave and radiation parameters of the environment.