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Jet planes to take the green route
Oct 16 2007, C.S.

In dealing with environmental pollution, we seem to have focused more on troposphere and sort of neglected the stratosphere. Although we have divided the atmosphere into four different layers, there is no demarcation to separate one layer from another,...

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