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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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The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down...
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For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
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In a beloved film from my childhood, “Flight of Dragons,” the scientist hero confronts the evil red magician on a dark crag. As menacing snakes sprout out...
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After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
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Eco Factor: Synthetic trees to capture CO2 from the air and convert it into liquid CO2.
Research scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at...
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The Symposium on the Climate Change in London witnessed the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu raising concerns over global warming. He went on to suggest painting roofs...
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For the green hoodies New York’s the place to be, because erected outside the Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, by the Deutsche Bank is a 70-feet-tall digital...
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Eco Factor: Real-time CO2 counter encourages people to curtail emissions.
Deutsche Bank, a name not directly related to environmental conservation, has lit a...
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By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...
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Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
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Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the...
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Definition – Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its...
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Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...
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Jordanian Ministry of Environment will be marking World Environment Day, which is usually celebrated on the 5th of June, through a new campaign titled, “Your...
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World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
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People talk about the future, yet climate change is claiming lives now, notably in Africa. The nations, governors and those governed must stand up and be counted.
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Eco Factor: Solar-generating roofs coated with reflective tiles to reduce solar gain.
Recently news surfaced that painting the world white would help curb global...
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On Tuesday, French climber Alain Robert, popularly known as “Spiderman,” climbed a 41-story Sydney tower with his bare hands, just to make the world aware about...
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Carbon Capture & Storage technology has been around for many decades but researchers could not make any substantial progress in its testing. Abandoning this tale...
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Researchers all over the world are coming up with various suggestions to help tackle the global warming. Accordingly, the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu proposes to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tapping the UV blocking and antioxidant quality of lichens, scientists have found a way out for making effective sunscreen lotions. Harmful effect of UV rays is known...
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