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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West pays Russia to close ozone destroying plants
Russian enterprises which have almost half the world's remaining capacity to produce ozone depleting substances are to be closed using money from the World Bank and Western governments, the World
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West to pay Russia to close down ozone depleting plants
The World Bank has signed an agreement providing funds with the Government of the world's largest ozone-depleting economy, Russia.The World Bank signed a US$26.2 million Grant Agreement on 25 October
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Arctic faces ozone damage by 2020,says scientist
One of the British scientists who discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic fears the same damage could hit the Arctic by 2020. Jonathan Shanklin said the earth's ozone layer was cooling, which
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Professor wins EPA ozone award
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will present Yasuko Matsumoto, an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College, with an award for her role in protecting the Earth's
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Substance Abuse
The Montreal Protocol was meant to eliminate Ozone depleting substances. It is turning out to be a technology trap for Indian industry. And the government is clueless
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Deepest and largest ever ozone hole keeps Chileans and Argentinians indoors
Authorities have warned the residents of Southern Chile and Argentina's biggest cities not to go out in the sun during the day fearing the effects of the deepest and widest detected hole in the
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Ozone hole expands, affects city In Chile
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has stretched over a populated city for the first time after ballooning to a new record size, New Zealand scientists said.Previously, the hole only opened
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Record ozone hole refuels debate on climate
The hole that opens in the ozone layer over Antarcticaeach southern spring formed earlier and grew bigger this year than at any time since satelliteshave been monitoring the polar atmosphere,
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Radiation alert under ozone hole in southern Chile
A wide swath of southern Chile was on alert yesterday as dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation hit peaks because of the depletion of the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic. Health
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Ozone hole reaches tip of South America
The biggest ozone hole ever seen has opened up over Antarctica, scientists from the US space agency NASA say. It covers the whole of Antarctica and the southern tip of Latin America, an area of 11