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.
Nov 01, 2010
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Nov 01, 2010
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What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: ...
Sep 02, 2009
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Discovering the ozone hole: Q&A with Pawan Bhartia
On Sept. 16, 1987, representatives from nations around the world drafted a landmark treaty known as the Montreal Protocol. This step marked the beginning of the international agreement to phase out substances ...
Sep 18, 2012
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Environment Canada cuts threaten science, international agreements
Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere ...
Feb 13, 2012
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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 ...
Feb 24, 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.
Sep 16, 2009
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North America backs plan to cut greenhouse gases
(AP) -- Small island nations gained North America's powerful backing Tuesday for a plan to convert the U.N. ozone treaty into a tool for phasing out some of the globe's most powerful climate-warming gases.
Sep 16, 2009
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Ozone hole healing could cause further climate warming
The hole in the ozone layer is now steadily closing, but its repair could actually increase warming in the southern hemisphere, according to scientists at the University of Leeds.
Jan 25, 2010
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U of T atmospheric physicist discusses ozone, climate change and the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium
As leading international scientists gather in Toronto to discuss new findings on ozone and climate change for the 22nd Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, U of T News spoke with Professor Kimberly Strong about her ...
Aug 30, 2012
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Aura Marks Five Years of Sky-High Atmosphere Research
Imagine Earth without an atmosphere - without clouds, wind or air. Earth's atmosphere protects, transports, and reacts to life on Earth.
Aug 05, 2009
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Enfants terribles of the environment hit middle age
We sort our rubbish. We recycle our rainwater. We worry about depleted oceans, ravaged rainforests, threatened species.
Sep 14, 2011
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US supports reducing climate-warming gases
(AP) -- The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threat to climate change Monday, and expressed a preference for drastically ...
May 04, 2009
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Satellites provide new insight into ozone-depleting species
Using data from the satellite-based MIPAS and GOME-2 instruments, scientists have for the first time detected important bromine species in the atmosphere. These new measurements will help scientists to better understand sources ...
Feb 25, 2009
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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 ...
Mar 14, 2011
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UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market
(AP) -- An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling ...
Aug 21, 2010
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