Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Dinesh Prasad Chaurasia & Others Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 12/04/2024. The matter related to improper disposal of fly ash by the thermal power station run by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Kanti, Muzaffarpur, …
Loss of life saving ozone in the stratosphere continues despite the global concern and global action to check its depletion. This has been revealed by on-the-spot fiedl studies inthe Arctic region during November-March winter just ended.
there is fresh evidence that the ozone layer over the uk and northern Europe is thinning. Scientists are worried by the depletion which was previously thought to be a problem largely confined to the southern hemisphere. Meteorological readings taken in the stratosphere over the Arctic show that in six of …
Ozone recovery may be delayed, say scientists. Ozone levels over th e Arctic have fallen dramatically this winter, say scientists. An international group of researchers found cumulative ozone losses of more than 60% at around 18 kilometres above the polar region between January and March.
IT IS about the ozone layer. And it is not bad news. Some Australian scientists say if the amount of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) being released is reduced, the most famous layer of the Earth's atmosphere will begin to repair itself. However, before you rush to go tell your friends, bear …
The executive committee of the Montreal Protocol multilateral fund has acorded fresh sanctions of grants-in-aid to 24 Indian projects to help them switch over from using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances (ODS) to substitutes that are ozone friendly.
More than 350 scientists from the US, Canada, Europe , Russia and Japan have travelled to Sweden for the biggest field study yet of ozone loss over the North Pole.
Call for consumption watch: Developing countries must implement their phase-out of ozone depleting chemcials such as chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs), halons and carbon tetrachloride on a war-footing to prevent adverse efects, according to Mr. K. Madhava Sarma, Executive Secretary, Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP).
the concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide ( co 2 ), methane and nitrogen in the atmosphere have been steadily rising over the last few decades. This is likely to go up unabated. These gases are increasing at the rate of 1.5 parts per million per year and, …
Dear Readers, Global environmental negotiations on issues such as climate change, biodiversity and desertification often seem to be far removed from the everyday reality of more pressing environmental problems like pollution. Even environmental groups sometimes underestimate their importance. As a result, decisions taken by government representatives often go unnoticed and …
The failure of China and India to phase out dangerous chemicals threatens the progress made in healing the earth's protective ozone layer, the man who discovered the ozone hole over antarctica said on Sunday. Since British scientist Joe Farman identified the hole in 1985, the volume of ozone-killing substances released …
The ozone layer will return to its condition it was in early 1970 by 2050,as predicted by the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1998, released by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP). This however is based on enthusiastic assumptions like full implementation of the Montreal Protocol, …
India, set to receive a $82 million grant to gradually phase out the production of CFCs (chlorofluocarbons), is gearing up for another battle-- a proposal to advance the deadline on a consumpiton freeze of other ozone-eating gases, HCFCs, in developing countries.
To facilitate the implementation of the Montreal Protocol for cessation of production of Ozone depleting Substances (ODS) such as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), India is all set a grant of $82 millions from the Multi-Laternal Fund of the World Bank.
Icy clouds filled with nitric acid helped eat away the protective ozone layer over the Arctic last winter, Nasa scientists said on Tuesday. Global warming could help the long-lived clouds last even longer, despite efforts by industry to reduce the amount of chlorine spewing out, the researchers told a conference.
The expanding hole in the atmosphere's ozone layer may account for the dramatic decline in krill numbers in the Antarctic Ocean, according to scientists aboard the Fisheries Agency ship Kaiyo Maru. U.S. and German research findings showed that the krill population off the Antarctic Peninsula, due south of Tierra del …
there is no doubt that air pollution will be of even greater significance in the next millennium. From the first century, when Roman philosopher Seneca complained about air pollution, to recent times, the problem has grown to assume grave dimensions. It is in the light of this that a book …
Satellite data from above Antarctica show an unusually early and severe drop in the level of ozone, the World Meteorological Organisation said yesterday. The United Nations agency said an average drop of 30 percent was recorded compared to the benchmark 1964-76 period, before a hole in the protective ozone layer …
The world has made progress in cutting the amount of ozone-killing substances it releases, a UN official said. "Scientists have reported that some potent ozone-depleting substances at the upper stratosphere have decreased, and this is a very positive sign," said Omar Arini, chief officer of the Secretariat of the Multilateral …
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is growing at an unprecedented rate and could reach a record depth this year, United Nations meteorologists said on Friday. The findings of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) come two weeks after the U.S. space agency NASA said the largest hole ever …
Two new norms of project support have been provided to India for phasing out chlorofluorocarbon(CFC) and other ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) under the Montreal Protocol.
