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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Gas buildup could lead to Arctic "ozone hole"
Rising levels of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere will lead to further depletion of earth's protection ozone layer and could produce an Arctic "ozone hole" equivalent to the one already appearing
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Increasing greenhouse gases may be worsening Arctic ozone depletion
In late 1997, larger levels of ozone depletion were observed over the Arctic than in any previous year on record. Now, using climate models, a team of scientists reports why this may be related to
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- Refrigerator manufacturers plug the 'green' tag over the price tag
Ecology sells! Or so refrigerator manufacturers hope. They have launched a spate of eco-friendly CFC-free(Chloro Fluro Carbons) refrigerators in the Indian market in the last few months. And their
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- Rs 105-crore World Bank grant to IDBI for ozone depletion substances scheme
In an exclusive arrangement, the World Bank has provided around Rs 105 crore in the form of grant to the Industrial development Bank of India (IDBI) for funding phasing out of ozone depletion
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- Ozoen depletion affecting oceans
Global changes in climate and ozone depletion was affecting chemical and biological conditions in the oceans, according to Prof A R Subramaniam, president of Visakhapatnam chapter of Indian
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CFC phase-out may sound death knell for domestic units
Domestic chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) manufacturers have alleged that they are neither getting funds nor know-how from the West to develop CFC substitutes as provisioned under the Montreal
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IMI
Phaseout schedule of choloro flurocarbons in India : The government of India is set to announce the industry specific phase out schedule for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting
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New chemical poses threat to ozone layer
A new ozone-destroying chemical has been found in the earth's atmosphere by Australian scientists, throwing repair of the ozone layer into doubt. A firefighting chemical suspected
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Development Prog-ramme (UNDP) has allocated US $100,000 to Vietnam to support the relief efforts for the typhoon-stricken areas in that country. Typhoon Linda which hit the
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he search is on
Seed varieties resistant to ozone would help enhance crop yields in areas which are exposed to high ozone levels