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 the gap
The amendments to the Montreal Protocol made at the 9th Meeting of Parties may help curb smuggling of ozone depleting substances and ensure compliance. But they place a heavy responsibility on developing countries who have to move towards the use of subst
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Measure for measure
Some countries have failed to live up to commitments. But measures to ensure compliance to the protocol do not address the issue of North South inequality
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The road ahead
While the protocol has succeeded in lowering consumption of CFCs, developing countries still bear the cost burden of using and developing substitutes
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Ten years of the Protocol
The good news... CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform have been phased out in developing countries to a large extent. Growth rates of CFCs and methyl chloroform in the
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PROMOTING INEQUALITY
The Montreal Protocol, hailed as a
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Discovery returns
The space shuttle has brought back vital data about ozone depletion
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Green fridge
Gadolinium, a rare-earth metal, is being used to create a new technology of refrigeration. The metal heats up when subjected to a magnetic field and cools down when demagnetised. This quality of the
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IN F0CUS
The new regulations proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act have kicked up a storm. Although few of its earlier targets have been achieved, the
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Climatic conundrum
Ice cover might be increasing in the West Antarctic contrary to its presumed collapse
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Hole hazards
Ultraviolet rays penetrating through the protective ozone layer over Antarctica are damaging the DNA of higher animals. Scientists from the Northeastern University of Texas, US, found extensive