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Most of us are aware of the ozone layer problem. Ozone is a gas containing 3 atoms of oxygen. It is a harmful gas if inhaled in large quantities. Naturally it is present in the lower part of the second layer of our atmosphere. So there is a layer of...
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Droughts. Hurricanes. Floods. Monsoons. Disappearing coastlines. These are just a few of the weather effects we’re currently experiencing and will see more of in the...
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Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released on Wednesday says.
An additional 1°C in sea temperatures in tropical...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Coral reefs face an immediate threat from their ecosystem, the vast ocean itself! Reason: Thanks to increased greenhouse gases in atmosphere, oceans are becoming warmer...
made popular Aug 29 2008
The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming and in August saw its second largest summer shrinkage since satellite observations began 30 years...
made popular Aug 28 2008
RESTORING INTEGRITY TO THE NATION’S environmental and public-lands agencies will be one of the first challenges our next president faces. Over the past eight...
made popular Aug 28 2008
This year appears set to be the coolest globally this century.
made popular Aug 27 2008
Environment issues being complex, scientific and specialized, it becomes difficult to resolve the disputes quickly. So, time and again, there are demands and...
made popular Aug 27 2008
With the threat of global warming looming, it’s more important than ever that all of us appear to care about the environment.
made popular Aug 26 2008
This is exactly what happens when you try and not do enough to prevent phenomenons such as global warming and ignore the warnings of those who have been predicting...
made popular Aug 19 2008
Rising seas, melting polar ice caps and strange weather tend to grab headlines as Earth’s climate grows warmer. But there are other dramatic outcomes that...
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Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from...
made popular Aug 12 2008
Sometimes world global press pages are hardly assessable via links provided-it can perhaps explain a copy-past story following:
“UK historian quotes Captain Cook...
made popular Aug 6 2008
Although “our reliance on fossil fuels has created global warming” sounded strange to me, I enjoy Al Gore optimism as much as a reality of processes occurring...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Barcelona-based rug company, Nanimaquina, along with Mexican design collective, NEL, will showcase their latest offering, “A Global Warming Rug”, at this year’s...
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A recent report says that a large ice shelf about 155 square miles has broken away from the Ward Hunt area in Canada. These far off events seem like only tabloid print...
made popular Jul 30 2008
There were/are plenty prophesies threatening the Earth with the end of the world in the nearest feature around-and this BBC story of The Green New Deal Group is, one...
made popular Jul 23 2008
Creativity plus utility can do wonders! Some fourteen graduates of the Royal College of Art made a mark in the design world by competing for the 2008 Pilkington...
made popular Jul 19 2008
In a new report, the EPA said “it is very likely” that more people will die during extremely hot periods in future years — and that the elderly, the...
made popular Jul 19 2008
There is so much buzz around the phenomenon of global warming that one begins to wonder if it is hyped or real. One Mr. Michael Crichton had presented his off-track...
made popular Jul 17 2008
Global warming may not be really existing as we think it does. At least evidence says so.
made popular Jul 17 2008
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Since 1985 when the gaping hole in the ozone layer was discovered, we have all been on a wordlwide movement to recover the ozone layer. But recent studies have...
made popular Jun 15 2008
If Pakistan and India will wage a nuclear war against each other, the world will be at great risk since the ozone layer will be severely damaged. Its effects will be as...
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The yawning hole in Earth’s ozone layer has shrunk 30 percent in size compared to last year, according to new measurements made by the European Space...
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Air purifiers can do amazing things. However, there seems to be a lot of controversy over the recent legislation passed in the California state, that imposed a ban on...
made popular Sep 30 2007
The words ‘ozone layer’ immediately reminds us of the hole over Antarctica without much effort. The same reason that leads us about its thought also keeps...
made popular Aug 29 2007
The latest concern among environmentalists is the ozone layer. This is what causes damage to the earth’s flora and fauna. Recently, an article in the Nature...
made popular Jul 26 2007
It is perhaps the right time, with concerns for high altitude air pollution increasing, for the planes to go ‘green’ with their fuel and try to produce...
made popular Jun 15 2007
What tore the ozone apart in the Earth’s stratosphere? Human-made chemicals? True. But, not to the extend what a massive solar flare did in 1859! It all happened...
made popular Mar 25 2007
With an effort to fix the ozone hole over Antarctica, more than two dozen countries replaced chloroflourocarbons in refrigerators, air conditioners and hair spray in...
made popular Aug 21 2006
While on one hand, environmentalists are putting efforts to protect the earth’s ozone layer, on the other, this very concern is worrying doctors for millions of...
made popular May 13 2006
Though the international 1987 agreement banning CFCs is visibly going successful, with the Earth’s ozone layer slowly recovering, it is to be marked that the...
made popular May 5 2006
Increase in agricultural production means increased use of nitrates as a nitrogenated fertilizer. And use of this through ages has given rise to environmental problems...
made popular Apr 20 2006
We all know the layer of ozone in the earth’s upper atmosphere protects life from harmful ultraviolet radiation. But it is unfortunate that we have damaged it by...
made popular Dec 9 2005
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