if you thought depletion of stratospheric ozone layer happens only over the polar regions, it's time you relocated your view tropically. For, scientists have found the ozone layer over the Indo-Gangetic (ig) basin is getting seriously compromised, due to, among other things, the increasing load of atmospheric pollution.

Pakistan government is committed to protect environment and has planned to train 3,000 technicians throughout the country to control emission of Chloro Fluoro Carbons, which is depleting the Ozone

Prof Sherwood Rowland, recipient of the 1995 Nobel prize for his role in making the world aware of the danger of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), says he is waiting for the discovery of

This spring's Arctic ozone hole may well be the worst ever, scientists warn. The severe loss of protective ozone in the upper atmosphere would increase the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching

There is increasing evidence that the grave warnings of climate change at the various World Summits on Sustainable Development are coming true. For one, even as the residents of Delhi were lamenting

Bhutan will decrease its annual import of ozone depleting sub stances (ODS) from 150 kilogrammes to 75 kilogrammes in compliance with the Montreal Protocol ratified by the 82nd session of the

The Bangladesh government with the financial support of Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund (MLF) will procure 9000 kits to convert the CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) running refrigerators in the country

The winter hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica appears to have grown from last year but is still smaller than in 2003, when it was at its largest, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect, the United Nations said. In a bulletin