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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IN FOCUS
The Republican Congressmen in the US continue to go hammer and tongs against all things environmental. This time it is the ozone layer. Led by representative John T Doolittle,
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A depletion of faith
SEPTEMBER 16 this year, as recommended by the United Nations General Assembly, marks the first International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer -- the thin layer of gaseous stratospheric ozone
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Ozone omens
The hole in the ozone shield is growing faster than ever, warns a recent report
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Curtailing CFCs
Japanese scientists arrive at new method's for safe disposal of CFCs
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UNITED NATIONS
The fourth UN world conference on women has been underway (September 4-15) in Beijing, China. Weighty -issues being discussed in the conference include action to alleviate poverty,
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The phase continues
India's time threatens to run out as the ozone phase out fund goes miserly
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Law in defiance
The international community may agree to do without chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- the chemicals identified as being primarily responsible for the depletion of the earth's ozone shield -- but the
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Thinning heavens
European scientists have found evidence of ozone levels over the Arctic declining by about 50 per cent between the altitudes of 16 and 18 km (Nature, Vol 374, No 6522). The Second European
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Repeat performance
The ozone layer over the Antarctica was nearly as severely depleted in November last year as it was in 1993, when it reached a record low, reveal several airborne and space sensors. According to
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Ozone loss has a silver lining
Studies reveal that falling ozone concentration could partly offset global warming