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, …
Even as the concentration of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs), the major cause of the ozone hole in Antarctica, is declining due to international regulations, scientists have identified another culprit for a similar loss of ozone over the Arctic region.A team of German researchers from Max Planck Institute have found that 35 per …
Isro today successfully launched a cryogenic sampler payload-- an instrument to measure ozone depleting substances in the earth's atmosphere -- using a ballon for Germany-based Max Planck Institute.
Europeans are regularly exposed to unsafe amounts of ground level ozone, a gas which can have serious health effects, a report commissioned by the European Union showed yesterday. "The threshold set for the protection of human health is exceeded substantially and in all (EU) member states," said the European Environment …
According to a report by the US-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica reached record proportions in September 1998. Covering an area of 25 million square kilometres, or about 2.5 times the area of Europe, this hole surpassed the previous record
The just-concluded 27th meeting of the Montreal Protocol Fund's executive committee meeting has sanctioned a fresh tranche of grant-in-aid for 14 Indian projects to meet the incremental cost for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs).
The UN environment Programme is launching a $7million assistance plan for developing countries to help them phase out ozone-depleting substances (OZS). The initiative, launched in Montreal at the 27th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, comprises …
The United Nations Environment Programme announced that it is launching a major initiative, which will help developing countries phase out ozone-depleting sustances (ODS). This initiative, launched in Montreal at the 27th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone …
A Chinese meteoroligst has suggested building an Ozone Observation Station in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to study the thin ozone layer above the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Zhou Xiuji, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has presided over a research group to study the changes in the …
Even if all the countries of the world sincerely implement the Montreal Protocol of 1987 for phasing out the elements depleting the ozone layer around earth, the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other toxic chemicals already released in the atmosphere will remain active for another 100 years. The status of ozone layer, …
Recovery of the earth's ozone layer will take years longer than previously expected, with Australia's peak scientific and research organisation pointing the finger at China's gas emissions.
India will receive a fresh grant of $2.9 million (about Rs 12.08 crore) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for phasing out of ozone depleting substances like chlorofluro-carbons (CFCs), that are still being used in the manufacturing sector.
to the dismay of many environmentalists, it seems that a potent ozone-depleting pesticide scheduled for a gradual phase-out would be retained after all. us researchers have found that emissions of the agricultural fumigant gas methyl bromide could be reduced to what they claim are insignificant levels by applying composted manure …
bangalore-based Trac Fujico Air Systems Ltd has become the country's first indigenous manufacturer to develop and introduce air conditioners (ac s ) that do not use hcfc (hydrochlorofluorocarbon). hcfc , used widely as a refrigerant, is a potential environmental hazard as it contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer. …
The size of the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was the largest ever measured and lasted a month longer than the year before, Argentine meteorologists said. The National Weather Service(SMN) said the yearly stage, called an epidose, in which the ozone hole appears over the Antarctic ended last …
Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs), still well below the allowable limit, is growing at a fast rate with the aerosol sector alone commanding three-quarters of total ODS use in Bangladesh. According to surveys of Department of Environment (DOE), CFCs, halons, carbontetreachloride, methylchloroform and hydrochlorofluocarbons (HCFCs) are among the ODS …
ALL those campaigns finally paid off Scientists recently confirmed that the global use of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) has shown an encouraging downward trend. CFCs suddenly attracted a lot of public, media and scientific attention in the 1980s, when it was discovered that these chemicals had torn a huge hole in the …
India and the US have signed an accord whereby around 40 Indian industrial units using carbon tetra-chloride will receive grant-in-aid from the Montreal Protocol Fund. The Fund is a multilateral agency which provides aid to industries to cover the incremental cost for phaseout of ozone depleting substances (ODSs) under the …
India has joined hands with the US and Russia in two separate atmospheric exploration projects to study the fast-depleting ozone layer over the tropics and extra-tropical troposphere. Under the Indo-Russian and Indo-US programmes undertaken early this year, Indian scientists tried to gauge the variations in atmospheric ozone and aerosole contents …
Anticipating one of the worst ozone densities in years, South Korea's Environment Ministry has put forth a list of measures to reduce the pollutant, which is largely due to nitrogen oxides and other volatile organic compounds (VOC) emitted from cars and aerosol spray cans. The ministry said that an ozone …
The UN has warned that the increasing incidence of smuggling and illegal trade in chloroflourocarbons(CFCs) could seriously undermine efforts of over a decade to eliminate the consumption and production of the ozone depleting substance.The UN warning comes on the enve of World Ozone Day on September 16.CFCs are the largest …
