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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Disarming the disastrous
Attempts are on to convert ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons into more innocuous substances like table salt
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Layer of woe
there seems to be more bad news pertaining to the ozone layer. The growing ozone hole has allowed for a cooler stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere 10-50 km above the Earth. Scientists led by
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The lesser evil
Attempts are on to find replacements for deadly ozone depleting substances ODS such as chlorofluorocarbons CFCs
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CAUGHT IN A HAZE
Concerned by high levels of smog in the Washing ton area, the Sierra Club and three other groups have sued the environment protection agency (EPA) of the US to force Virginia, Maryland and the
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Hope at last!
ALL the diatribe and deliberations about protecting the ozone layer have not been just a lot of talk. Recently scientists reported that the concentration of ozone-depleting chemicals in the
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A real cool dude!
A new climate friendly and non CFC technology proposed for refrigerators may broaden the prospect of North South cooperation regarding chlorofluorocarbon phase out
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Goodbye, freon
Russian researchers have come up with a power saving and ozone friendly refrigerator which operates without a motor and uses a semiconductor as coolant
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Trouble in the air
The winter of 1995 96 has witnessed record lows in the levels of ozone in some areas of the Northern Hemisphere, affecting Europe in particular
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Ozone research goes Dutch
Dutch researchers are excited at the prospect of overtaking the Americans and becoming leaders in ozone research
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A disappearing act
WHILE the debate on global warming -continues, the detection of an astounding 45 per cent depletion of the mone layer, over an area stretching froth Greenland to western Siberia,