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
Ozone Layer
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Valid excuse
even small increases in the levels of air pollutant ozone may have an adverse effect on the health of children, causing them to miss school, a new report suggests. "We detected ill health
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Large particles contribute to ozone loss over Arctic
A team of international scientists has discovered large particles laden with nitric acid in the Arctic's stratosphere, or upper atmosphere--particles that may be contributing to the unusually low
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Ozone smog may blanket N hemisphere
Traffic pollution, especially in Asia, is becoming so bad that most of the northern hemisphere will eventually be blanketed by ozone smog, triggering asthma epidemics and damaging crops and
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Weighty task
It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms
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Asthma and ozone
Children face a greater risk
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Further environmental improvements for China
A massive ozone-fighting grant, an increase in environmental expenditure, and more reliable and open reporting are among the developments announced in China.The United Nations has given China a $25
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UN grants China $25 million to help ozone layer
The United Nations has given China a $25 million grant to help save the ozone layer by phasing out products that destroy the thin shield protecting Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, state
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Global Environmental Negotiations 2: poles apart
The Global Environmental Negotiations (GEN) series provide information on environment-related treaties, negotiations and institutions. Poles Apart, the second in the series of books on the politics of global environmental governance (GEN). This book contains updates on the issues dealt within the first report, Green Politics . It contains new chapters on five conventions and institutions.
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Alert Mexico
Mexico proposes tighter limits for smog alerts
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Climate on a skid
Global warming is likely to be far greater and faster than previous estimates, says the latest report of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Merely planting more trees won t help