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• India's journey towards sustainable cooling

  Sustainability, for long, has been at the core of Indian lifestyle and its indigenous knowledge and sustainable practices have played a crucial role in helping people be informed and make environmentally

  • 02/01/2024

  • UNDP India
  • • Climate Change
    • Ozone Layer
    • Montreal Protocol
    • India
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Hole in the ozone layer

  Here's an argument that ought to put the one about a hole in the ozone layer at rest. Unfortunately, it hasn't been well documented. The last few decades have seen conservation advocates shout from

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone hole over Antarctica

  The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica. Today, it measures 28.3 million square kilometres while two years ago it was 27.2

  • 22/11/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Italy tops Euro ozone chart

  Newly released figures for this spring and summer show that Italy's smog levels exceeded the critical threshold on 80 days at at least one data

  • 02/11/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Agreement finally reached on ozone controls

  The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers have negotiated an agreement over a proposed new law for reducing ground-level

  • 02/11/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Duration of Antarctic ozone hole a significant factor in UV levels

  Peak summertime UV levels in New Zealand could be high this December if the Antarctic ozone hole survives longer than last year, as is expected, by scientists at New Zealand's Scott Base in

  • 19/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Threat to ozone's recovery

  Scientists have warned of new threats to the ozone layer - just days after indications that ozone depletion may be slowing. This year's ozone "hole" over Antarctica peaked in September at 26 million

  • 18/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone-depleting chemical may get reprieve

  Developed countries may be allowed limited use of ozone-depleting methyl bromide beyond a 2004 deadline to phase out the chemical, officials at an environmental conference in Sri Lanka said on

  • 18/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• South Pole ozone hole same size again in 2001

  Satellite data showed the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole peaked this year at roughly the same size as the past three years, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said

  • 18/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone hole smaller but radiation risk seen higher

  This year's ozone hole over Antarctica is likely to last longer than last year's and spread more harmful ultra-violet radiation over the southern hemisphere, New Zealand scientists said yesterday.

  • 17/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone hole still big, but stabilizing

  Satellite data show that the area of the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at about 26 million square kilometers (about 10 million square miles), making this year's ozone hole the same size as North

  • 17/10/2001

  • • Ozone Layer