By LOUIS BERGERON In the first study ever done on the local health effects of the domes of carbon dioxide that develop above cities, Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson found that the domes increase the local death rate. The result provides a scientific basis for regulating CO2 emissions at the local level and points out a […]
This graph from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which collects and collates data on the Antarctic ozone “hole”, makes clear that although the exact size of the hole varies from year to year, it’s stubbornly resistant to going away. This is despite the fact that within months, the Montreal Protocol’s list of banned chemicals will […]
By Marlowe Hood and Richard Ingham (AFP) PARIS — Climate change will disrupt Earth’s precious ozone layer, boosting ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the deep southern hemisphere and reducing UV in far northern latitudes, a study warned on Sunday. By century’s end, UV levels in Antarctica could rise by up to 20 percent at seasonal peaks […]
By Noreen Parks In addition to weakening Earth’s natural shield against excessive radiation levels, ozone depletion above Antarctica has significantly dampened the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb atmospheric CO2 and has accelerated acidification of southern polar waters, according to new research reported online June 20 in Geophysical Research Letters (2009, DOI 10.1029/2009GL038227). Of the atmospheric […]
Christmas packaging, millions of trees and up to a billion cards are heading to landfill – even though much of it could be recycled By Rachel Shields Sunday, 28 December 2008 This is a toy story, but it has no happy ending. As millions of households wade through crumpled wrapping, plastic ties and discarded boxes, […]
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