Synopsis Environment is the sum of all social cultural, biological, physical and chemical factors with constitute the surroundings of human beings who are both creator and molders of their environment. Environment is never constant it is continuously changing slowly by nature, rapidly of drastically by all living beings, specially man.

Since last few decades global environment is passing through serious changes and challenges, viz. Pollution explosion leading to scarcity of resources, drought floods, earthquakes, natural or man disasters have seriously affected the life on our planet.

In the same direction a unique effort is made by way compilation of a book entitled Pollution: The Ugly Face of Environment in which senior professor of various universities of India and abroad have contributed their best articles on each and every aspect of environment. The authors have tried their level best to furnish recent developments in the field of environment to make this book a comprehensive, lucid and systematic for better understanding of the subject. The book is equally useful for the students of U.G and P.G studies as well as for common literate persons.