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, …
For the environmentally concerned people, there is a good as well as a bad news on ozone layer, which protects the earth from the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) rays. The good news is that the industralised countries have phased out most of their production and consumption of the mot widely …
In connection with the World Ozone Day (September 16), the Tamil Nadu Government has urged entrepreneurs and individual consumers to play their role in protecting the ozone layer.
Focussing on the role of National green corps (trained batches of school-children) towards protecting the environment, a National programme for the International ozone protection day, which is scheduled on September 16 would be observed in Hyderabad.
Eastern Australia should be among the first regions to experience a recovery from ozone depletion, according to US scientists.But this will not happen until about 2015, and the greenhouse effect may push the date out.Gradual natural repair of the ozone layer to its pre-depletion levels has been widely predicted to …
The hole in the Southern Hemisphere's ozone layer will start shrinking within a decade and should close completely in the next 50 years, an international panel said. Date unveiled at a conference in Argentina suggests that the global effort to reduce the use of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs), the main menance to …
The hole in the ozone layer will soon begin to shrink and could close completely over the next 50 years, according to an analysis of the latest data. Professor Alan O'Neill, a researcher at Reading University in the UK who chaired a conference that analysed the data, said the prospect …
The city has joined the developed West in depleting the ozone layer, or so says the finding of a study. According to the report, Delhi emits 16 million tonnes of Greenhouse gases every year. The immediate result of this emission has come in shape of higher average temperature for the …
Punta Arenas, a port city of Chile has been directly exposed to the biggest hole in the ozone layer. Local measurements indicate that the residents of the city are exposed to ozone levels 40 per cent greater than normal. Officials acknowledge the immediate need to solve the problem but say …
it is time to take out sun creams, ultraviolet protective sunglasses, wide brimmed hats and clothing with long sleeves because the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica has just been detected by the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( nasa) . The ozone hole over the Antarctic is the …
One of the British scientists who discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic fears the same damage could hit the Arctic by 2020, reports Reuters. Jonathan Shanklin said the earth's ozone layer was cooling, which makes its recovery more difficult.
Russian enterprises which have almost half the world's remaining capacity to produce ozone depleting substances are to be closed using money from the World Bank and Western governments, the World Bank said yesterday. It said it had agreed to grant Russia $26.2 million to finance closure of seven Russian enterprises …
The World Bank has signed an agreement providing funds with the Government of the world's largest ozone-depleting economy, Russia.The World Bank signed a US$26.2 million Grant Agreement on 25 October with the Government of Russia which has 47% of the world's latent ozone depleting substances (ODS) production capacity.
One of the British scientists who discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic fears the same damage could hit the Arctic by 2020. Jonathan Shanklin said the earth's ozone layer was cooling, which makes its recovery more difficult.Shanklin, one of three scientists to discover the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will present Yasuko Matsumoto, an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College, with an award for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer.Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International Matsumotofrom 1990 to 1998, is receiving the …
the deadline for concurrence with the Montreal Protocol is fast approaching. In India confusion reigns supreme. Neither the government nor Indian industry is sure of what course to pursue. Both are baffled about the options available for technology transfer to help phase out chlorofluorocarbons ( cfc s). Under the protocol …
Authorities have warned the residents of Southern Chile and Argentina's biggest cities not to go out in the sun during the day fearing the effects of the deepest and widest detected hole in the Antarctic ozone layer ever. One of the few areas in the world where people live beneath …
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has stretched over a populated city for the first time after ballooning to a new record size, New Zealand scientists said.Previously, the hole only opened over Antarctica and the surrounding ocean.Citing data from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, atmospheric research …
The hole that opens in the ozone layer over Antarcticaeach southern spring formed earlier and grew bigger this year than at any time since satelliteshave been monitoring the polar atmosphere, scientists have reported. In early September, several weeks before it normally reaches its peak, the hole expanded to a record …
A wide swath of southern Chile was on alert yesterday as dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation hit peaks because of the depletion of the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic. Health authorities warned the 120,000 residents of this wool and fishing city - one of the few populated areas beneath …
The biggest ozone hole ever seen has opened up over Antarctica, scientists from the US space agency NASA say. It covers the whole of Antarctica and the southern tip of Latin America, an area of 11 million square miles, three thimes largen than the area of the US.
