Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled “CSE report finds dangerous increase in ozone pollution across urban India” appearing in Down to Earth dated 06.08.2024. The Principal Bench of the NGT heard the matter on March 21, 2025. In the original application, registered suo …
CHENNAI: A normal or above normal north-east monsoon is expected this year, Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Ajit Tyagi, Director-General, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said here on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the High Performance Computing System at the Regional Meteorological Centre, Dr. Tyagi said that the monsoon was expected …
India on Tuesday unveiled its roadmap for phasing out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) by 2030 under the Montreal Protocol even as it sought the requisite technology and funds for it from the global community. HCFCs are chemicals now being widely used in refrigeration and air-conditioning in place of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), which cause …
India will phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), used for refrigeration and air-conditioning, by 2030 in line with the Montreal Protocol, a treaty to protect the ozone layer.
The consumption of HCFCs has grown at an average annual rate of over 11.3 per cent in the past 15 years ndia will phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by the year 2030. These chemicals are widely used in refrigeration and airconditioning systems and are major cause of global warming. While unveiling …
Mumbai Mumbai's weather has been erratic since December, an indication of the worldwide phenomenon of climate change, says Dr R V Sharma, deputy director general, India Meteorological Department (IMD). The city had 76 mm rain on Monday with the maximum temperature plummeting to an uncharacteristic 24.7
Despite its long-recognized importance, nitrous oxide (N2O, also commonly referred to as laughing gas) sometimes seems like the forgotten atmospheric gas. Concerns about the stratospheric ozone layer have largely focused on reactions of ozone with chlorine and bromine atoms released from the atmospheric dissociation of chlorofluorocarbons and other anthropogenic halocarbons. …
The most commonly-known f-gases are the early, so-called first generation F-gases: the CFCs that destroyed the ozone layer and were banned by the Montreal Protocol. However, in the race to save the ozone layer, the use of their second generation cousins was accelerated: HCFCs, now also banned under the Montreal …
The comprehensive road map for phasing out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in various sectors as per the reduction targets of Montreal Protocol released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. India plans to cut the use of the HCFCs by 10 per cent by 2015 and then to zero by 2030. India …
There exist a sound Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) among Karbis relating to prediction of annual seasons using flora and fauna and physical factors as indicators. Floral characters include leaf fall, formation of new leaves, flowering, fruiting and ripening, formation of tubers, etc. while faunal characters include courtship and mating, egg …
Sept. 29: Hyderabad and other Telangana districts are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Wednesday following the formation of a well-marked low pressure over west central Bay of Bengal. Isolated heavy to very heavy showers are expected at Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari districts.
WHILE we are yet to ascertain whether aerosols are warming or cooling our planet, a scientific team has traced a new source: deciduous trees. These are plants that shed their leaves seasonally. So far aerosols were described as particles of pollutants like sulphur dioxide, black carbon (soot) and sea salt …
On India Meteorological Department using statistical models instead of dynamical ones for forecasting Tell me which dynamical model has given correct forecasts for India? The forecasts for Indian monsoons given by the US, UK and Europe in April this year (using dynamical models) threw up different predictions. None of them …
SALEM: Educational institutions in the country should come forward to carry out collaborative research to study rainfall and cloud cover across the country, Head, Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Physical Research Laboratory (NPRL), New Delhi, S.K. Sarkar has said. He was speaking after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) …
More than half a dozen oceanographic buoys are missing in action in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has dispatched a ship to fix the malfunctioning buoys, which are part of the 55-strong Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array that monitors the ocean and atmosphere.
The ozone hole, which had caused serious environmental concerns, is shrinking and it could fully heal by the end of the century, bringing more rain to eastern Australia, scientists said on Wednesday. Matthew Tulley from Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne said the hole is now healing because of climate protection …
