News tagged with 1987 montreal protocol
Safer air-conditioner refrigerant helps reverse rapid ozone-layer losses of past decades
If the approaching summer has you calling for an air-conditioning repair, you'll have a personal experience with one of the world's most successful global environmental efforts.
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008: WMO
The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago.
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Ozone suite on Suomi NPP continues more than 30 years of ozone data
A new satellite instrument suite is now sending back detailed information about the health of the Earth's ozone layer, the shield that protects the world’s population from harmful levels of the sun's ...
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic
Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole ...
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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Ground-level ozone pollution helped to recover normal ozone levels over the Iberian Peninsula
The reconstruction of ozone levels over the Iberian Peninsula between 1979 and 2008 reveals that positive trends began eight years after the ratification of the Montreal Protocol. Furthermore, results show ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Significant ozone hole remains over Antarctica
The Antarctic ozone hole, which yawns wide every Southern Hemisphere spring, reached its annual peak on September 12, stretching 10.05 million square miles, the ninth largest on record. Above the South Pole, ...
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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Jury still out on whether the Arctic ozone hole is an exception
Last winter, an unprecedented ozone hole appeared above the Arctic, five times the size of Germany. For ETH-Zurich professor Thomas Peter, the recently published study comes as no surprise. But it does raise ...
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Oct 12, 2011 |
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Ozone layer faces record 40 pct loss over Arctic
(AP) -- The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays - ultraviolet radiation - has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N. weather agency said ...
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Apr 05, 2011 |
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Arctic on the verge of record ozone loss
Unusually low temperatures in the Arctic ozone layer have recently initiated massive ozone depletion. The Arctic appears to be heading for a record loss of this trace gas that protects the Earth's surface against ultraviolet ...
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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Study: Ozone layer's future linked strongly to changes in climate
The ozone layer -- the thin atmospheric band high-up in the stratosphere that protects living things on Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays, not to be confused with damaging ozone pollution ...
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by use of game theory
Economist Scott Barrett is no fan of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and get climate change under control. Barrett proposes a different approach: tackle the gigantic problem, ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Eco-friendly fridge clearly has drawback
GE is introducing a super-eco refrigerator, and I predict some versions will be a hard sell. Not because the fridge isn't an ecological breakthrough. It is.
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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