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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Widening O-zone causes concern
The widening gap of Ozone layer day by day has become a serious matter and if immediate concerted steps were not taken the situation. The developed countries have greater responsibility than that of
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Radiation threat looming
For the environmentally concerned people, there is a good as well as a bad news on ozone layer, which protects the earth from the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) rays. The good news is that the
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Green corps campaign for ozone protection
Focussing on the role of National green corps (trained batches of school-children) towards protecting the environment, a National programme for the International ozone protection day, which is
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Ozone recovery may hit eastern Australia first
Eastern Australia should be among the first regions to experience a recovery from ozone depletion, according to US scientists.But this will not happen until about 2015, and the greenhouse effect may
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'Ozone hole will heal in 50 years'
The hole in the Southern Hemisphere's ozone layer will start shrinking within a decade and should close completely in the next 50 years, an international panel said. Date unveiled at a conference in
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Hole in ozone layer could be closed within 50 years
The hole in the ozone layer will soon begin to shrink and could close completely over the next 50 years, according to an analysis of the latest data. Professor Alan O'Neill, a researcher at Reading
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High emissions hotting up city climate : Report
The city has joined the developed West in depleting the ozone layer, or so says the finding of a study. According to the report, Delhi emits 16 million tonnes of Greenhouse gases every year. The
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CHILE
Punta Arenas, a port city of Chile has been directly exposed to the biggest hole in the ozone layer. Local measurements indicate that the residents of the city are exposed to ozone levels 40 per cent
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The hole truth
NASA discovers the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica. A wake up call for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Arctic faces ozone damage by 2020
One of the British scientists who discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic fears the same damage could hit the Arctic by 2020, reports Reuters. Jonathan Shanklin said the earth's ozone layer was