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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A blueprint and not a plan
THIS BOOK, a collection of articles by six authors, is meant to be a sequel to Blueprint for a Green Economy (Earthscan), which was published in September 1989. The theme of the earlier book was
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Halons decreasing
After being spewed into the atmosphere for the past 30 years, mainly through the use of fire extinguishers, ozone-depleting halon concentrations are now decreasing (Nature, Vol 359 No 6394). Although
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Ozone nightmates
Over the next few years, ozone loss is projected to go from to worse
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Depleting cover
Forest cover in Europe is decreasing at an alarming rate, says a new study
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The Lahore experiment
Conclusive evidence of crop damage by ozone in Pakistan
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Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India stood alone on the issue of apportioning global sinks
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One earth but whose future?
FOR SOME publications, it is more interesting and instructive to review the context rather than the content. In the case of One Earth One Future-Our Changing Global Environment, the content is by now
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Arctic ozone depletion creats panic
WESTERN governments have touched the panic button because of the recent evidence of ozone depletion over the Arctic and large parts of the high and middle latitudes. The ozone hole is no
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The super cars are coming
With aerospace technologies set to revolutionise engine and body design, today's cars could become as obsolete as dinosaurs.
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Counting losses
A new instrument makes the task of monitoring ozone levels easier