Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth''s protective ozone layer is beginning to recover, largely because of the phase-out since the 1980s of certain chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans, a U.N. For the first time in 35 years, scientists were able to confirm a statistically significant and sustained increase in stratospheric ozone, which shields the planet from solar radiation that causes skin cancer, crop damage and other problems. green living ozone layer

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Sustainability Ninja

OCTOBER 2, 2011

A recent study released by NASA has shown a massive loss of the protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring. The loss of the ozone in that region is caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. The study, published online today in the journal Nature, discovered that the loss of ozone in the Arctic this year was comparable to the one in the Antarctic. Eco News arctic ozone loss

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Green (Living) Review

JULY 19, 2014

OSLO, March 9 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected four new man-made gases that damage the Earth''s protective ozone layer, despite bans on almost all production of similar gases under a 1987 treaty, a study showed on Sunday. The ozone layer shields the planet from damaging ultra-violet rays, which can cause skin cancer and eye cataracts, and has been recovering after a phase-out of damaging chemicals under the U.N.''s

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Eco Friendly Daily

JANUARY 21, 2014

Asthma sufferers are doing their part to decrease the amount of ozone depleting substances in the air whether they want to or not. Because of the far-reaching Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the emergency albuterol inhalers asthma patients have used for years are changing, and the old versions won’t be produced or sold past December 2008.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 2, 2013

Discovery of the depletion of the ozone layer was a watershed moment in the ecological timeline of our world. Ozone became synonymous with pollution and chemicals like CFCs (Chloro Fluro Carbons) which used to be staple chemical ingredients of a lot of products from refrigerators to fire extinguishers. Its less than desirable effect on the Earth’s protective sheath, the ozone layer was well highlighted.

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Celsias

APRIL 19, 2011

In December 2010 NIWA announced the Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest it had been in the past five years. Now comes news from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) that the depletion of the ozone layer has reached what the WMO describes as an “unprecedented level” between December 2010 to March 2011, thanks to the ongoing presence of ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere.

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Green (Living) Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) is urging the international community to cooperate on climate change in the same way that they united for the protection of the ozone layer. In the 1980s, computer models predicted a global disaster if no action was taken to protect the ozone layer against synthetic ozone-depleting chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

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Celsias

MARCH 16, 2013

Recent reports indicate that the whole in the Ozone Layer is starting to close because of the stance against CFC’s. In 1985 international action was taken to stop the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), after the realisation of their harmful effects on our atmosphere, specifically the whole that was created above Antarctica. NASA are hopeful the hole will closed be 2050 and late last year reported the whole is the smallest it’s been in over two decades.

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Elephant Journal

JULY 2, 2016

Arts & Culture Enlightened Society (Politics, Active Citizenship, Social Good) WAYLON: Today Only climate change environment healing ozone layerAs humans, we have the capacity to come together and address common threats.

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Green Prophet

MAY 8, 2012

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has wrapped up a national phase-out of all central cooling systems using chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), reports the Jordan Times : ”Jordan’s program for phasing out the use of CFCs, aimed at disposing 1500 tons of the harmful substance, was achieved one year ahead of schedule”, said Ghazi Odat, Director of the Ministry of Environment’s ozone project. Not a panacea: HCFCs also damage the ozone.

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Conservancy Talk

MAY 22, 2013

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Green Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

For developed nations the more global environmental issues such as climate change, ozone depletion and habitat loss are higher up on their priority list. The ozone layer crisis during the 1980’s is a good example of how the world can come together to combat global environmental issues. India was equally tough in their negotiations and their environment minister said in a statement that: “We didn’t destroy the layer. Photo credit: america.gov.

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Green Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2011

One of the biggest indicators of climate change are ozone holes, zones where the ozone that forms the protective layer of Earth’s atmosphere are too thin to be protective anymore. The reactions that convert less reactive chemicals into ozone-destroying ones take place in the polar vortex. The journal nature has confirmed that conditions this year have created the ozone hole in the North Pole. This creates reactions that are the cause of ozone breakdown.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 30, 2016

From Science: Since it was discovered in 1985, the Antarctic ozone hole has been a potent symbol of humankind’s ability to cause unintended environmental harm. But now comes a glimmer of good news: The void in the ozone layer is shrinking. “It’s It’s a big surprise,” says Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “I I didn’t think it would be this early.”.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 19, 2014

These factors are used to examine the role of transaction costs in the establishment and allocation of property rights to provide globally valued national parks, implement the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, execute the Montreal Protocol to manage emissions that damage the stratospheric ozone layer, set limits on harvest of highly-migratory ocean fish stocks, and control greenhouse gas emissions.

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Celsias

OCTOBER 16, 2011

A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists have reported. The ozone layer acts a kind of shield against UV radiation and helps in protection against skin cancer. Since the 1980s, everyone in the Southern Hemisphere has been aware of the hole in the ozone every summer above Antarctica.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 10, 2012

That incentive has driven plants in the developing world not only to increase production of the coolant gas but also to keep it high — a huge problem because the coolant itself contributes to global warming and depletes the ozone layer. It has long been known that pollution abatement subsidies are strongly preferred by polluting business firms. They can even lead to increases in pollution as profits encourage entry into the market.

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Celsias

AUGUST 6, 2012

Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also have a dramatic impact on public health.

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Green Home Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Ozone Impact. This practice was discontinued in the 1980s after the discovery of CFCs’ destructive effect on the ozone layer. HCFCs have 1-10% of the ozone depletion potential of CFCs, so while less destructive they are still actively depleting the ozone layer. Tagged: biodegradable , Hazardous Chemicals , Ozone , plastic free , polystyrene ban , Recycling , styrofoam hazards. What’s Wrong With Styrofoam?

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Green (Living) Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Washington, DC, February 2010 – Billions of tons of ozone-destroying and climate-warming chemicals currently contained in unwanted stockpiles and discarded equipment will leak into the atmosphere if not recovered and destroyed. But new rules on ozone-depleting substance destruction adopted by a carbon market offset registry, the Climate Action Reserve, could jumpstart new projects in both the U.S.

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Green Prophet

MAY 17, 2016

Scientists were already alarmed 20 years ago and more as they saw ozone layers ripping apart and the world getting warming. The earth warming is not a recent invention. Back then I was charged to lead a forestry project –– finding if and how poplar trees could grow beside roads and highways to suck up greenhouse gas.

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Green (Living) Review

MAY 1, 2011

While previous work has shown that the ozone hole is changing the atmospheric flow in the high latitudes, the Columbia Engineering paper, “Impact of Polar Ozone Depletion on Subtropical Precipitation,” demonstrates that the ozone hole is able to influence the tropical circulation and increase rainfall at low latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. The ozone hole is a big player in the climate system!"

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Eco_Living

MAY 27, 2009

He said "There's so much fuel burning here I can feel holes opening in the ozone layer above us!" You would have thought that most journos would have sorted out the difference between climate change and ozone depletion by now, but apparently not. Tags: rant ozone layer hole climate change bbc BBC Radio 4 yesterday had some reporter doing his outside broadcast from a truck fest to jazz up a story that truckers are the people being hardest hit by the recession.

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Celsias

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The treaty is the Montreal Protocol and its success has avoided one of the most severe global environmental threats the world has ever faced—the destruction of the stratospheric ozone by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). “The treaty’s success has put the ozone layer on the path to recovery by 2065 or later The world’s most successful environmental treaty turns 25 this week on September 16th.

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Celsias

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The refrigerants used by supermarkets, if not managed properly, contribute to climate change and harm the ozone layer which protects people from cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill Partnership is announcing the recipients of the program’s 2012 Environmental Achievement Awards today. Several supermarket partners are being recognized for their achievements in refrigerant management in the past year.

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Celsias

MAY 23, 2011

The traditionally used pesticide, methyl bromide, has been proven to delete the ozone layer, which called for international requirement by the Montreal Protocol to begin phasing it out. The strawberry farmers of California are currently stuck in a very difficult spot. The scientists are in an uproar, the workers in the fields are irate, the families living near the fields are terrified and the farmers are stuck while the population demands strawberries as much as ever. The culprit?

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Eco Chic

JULY 19, 2012

The products are made with ingredients that and are non-toxic, biodegradable, and will not damage the ozone layer. Any animal owner knows that it can be hard to keep a home or apartment free of pet odors. They can bring dirt into the home, shed, sometimes even leave you a surprise on the carpet or floor. But you love them anyway. Clean + Green makes a series of all-natural pet stain and odor removes that work well without harsh chemicals or perfumes.

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Green Prophet

AUGUST 26, 2020

Additionally, when other nitrogen oxides react with ammonia or the other volatile organic compounds in the air, the resulting product alters the Ozone layer, water, and soil acidity, and other ecosystem diversities. Working from home in the city can be a sustainable option.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 13, 2014

Their study revolved around ozone-depleting compounds, particularly nitrous oxide. The ozone was once a highly debated global concern that created the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol, which came to be in 1987, limited ozone-depleting compounds. The researchers found that nitrous oxide is becoming the leading man-made reason for ozone loss. However, as these compounds decreased due to the agreement, nitrous oxide was increasingly harmful to the ozone.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 14, 2013

CFCs were known to be a major factor in the thinning ozone layer. Scientists believe that the presence of such CFCs is causing the ozone to not heal as quickly as estimated prior. Regardless of the source, the scientists are hopeful they will be able to determine it and lead to the discontinuing CFC emissions so the ozone layer can heal.

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Eco_Living

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

It was only while they were there that the hole in the ozone layer was discovered. Tags: ozone layer hole climate change robert swan 2041 (originally posted on the Terra Infirma Blog ) On Tuesday night I was invited to a fundraiser to send a young man, Joe Spedding, on an expedition to the Antarctic as part of the 2041 campaign to maintain the continent as the Earth's only untouched wilderness and draw attention to climate change.

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Green Home Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Ozone Impact. This practice was discontinued in the 1980s after the discovery of CFCs’ destructive effect on the ozone layer. HCFCs have 1-10% of the ozone depletion potential of CFCs, so while less destructive they are still actively depleting the ozone layer. Tagged: biodegradable , Hazardous Chemicals , Ozone , plastic free , polystyrene ban , Recycling , styrofoam hazards. What’s Wrong With Styrofoam?

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 8, 2016

In 1987, the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty to address atmospheric ozone depletion, established timelines for the phasing out of Chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrochloroflourocarbons (HCFCs).  still estimated to be in the tens of millions of pounds per year, many R-22 users will need to transition to an ozone-safe alternative, like ICOR’s NU-22B®, to service legacy R-22 systems.”. Damned ozone layer

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Green (Living) Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

HFCs are chemicals are potential substitutes for ozone-depleting and climate-warming CFCs and HCFCs currently being phased out under the Montreal Protocol treaty to protect the ozone layer. Although they don’t harm the ozone layer, HFCs are powerful climate warming gases and their emissions are expected to rise sharply over the next few decades without aggressive action, significantly contributing to climate change.

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Environmental News Network

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Environmental Lyric : Looks like we screwed up the ozone layer/I wonder if the politicians care. Joan Jett is a rock icon. Best known for karaoke classics like ‘I love Rock and Roll’ and ‘Bad Reputation’, Joan Jett is the epitome of a rock icon. With a career beginning in the 1970’s, Joan Jett continues to be one of the coolest musical artists out there. You might be wondering what Joan Jett has to do with the ENN Blog.

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Conservancy Talk

JULY 13, 2017

These HFCs were originally adopted in the 1990s to replace the CFCs that were depleting the stratospheric ozone layer. While they are safe for ozone layer, HFCs are very potent greenhouse gases—some, 9000 times more powerful, molecule-for-molecule, than carbon dioxide. There has been much discussion in the press (and fierce debate online) about climate change gloom and doom in response to “ The Uninhabitable Earth ” by David Wallace-Wells.

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Eccorazzi

JUNE 10, 2011

They might just leave you sterile, give you cancer, deplete the ozone layer or change your genetic material. Okay, that headline was a bit of an overstatement. They might not kill you. The Toxies , a media partner of Ecorazzi, is designed to bring attention to the hazards of chemicals that are harmful to our health.

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Green Prophet

AUGUST 29, 2019

A recent map and study conducted by NASA show carbon monoxide, a well known culprit of damage to the Ozone Layer, is mapped as high at 18’000 feet (or 5,500m). The greenhouse effect worsens as the Earth’s atmosphere traps some of the energy from the Sun. Signs of global warming affecting the world are everywhere, and it’s more than just a change in temperature. The average surface temperature has increased over 1.6 degrees Celsius.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 11, 2013

CFCs are not the threat to the ozone layer that they once were, due to the 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol. While their impact on the ozone layer is minimized, HFCs have the potential to be a major player in global warming. Life is full of choices. One of the most dangerous choices may involve something you may take for granted. When the temperatures soar , switch on the air conditioning for a little relief.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 25, 2013

Remember the ozone layer? As well, with many international laws in place on aerosols, the ozone layer is actually starting to get better and become a problem that is healing itself. The ozone layer lies over Antarctica and has contributed to a very strange phenomenon thanks to its dubious pal, global warming. Well, according to the study in the New Scientist, global warming is a problem, Antarctica is warming and the paradox is due to the ozone layer.

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Green Prophet

JUNE 17, 2011

Both the United States and Russia have launched live mammals into space in order to test their ability to withstand conditions beyond earth’s protective ozone layer. Monkeys and other mammals have long been sacrificed to enable humans to explore space. Iran is going to send a monkey into space to prepare for the country’s plan to send a man on a similar journey by 2020.

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Eco Friendly Daily

MAY 8, 2014

” Using computer simulation, scientists estimated that the Earth’s surface beneath the layer of soot would be cooler by 0.7 The equatorial regions could lose about 1 percent of their ozone, while the poles could gain 10 percent. A previous study by the same researcher had looked at the harm to the ozone layer because of the direct brunt borne by the stratosphere by rocket emissions.

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Environmental News Network

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Carbon monoxide affects the atmosphere’s ability to cleanse itself of other polluting gases and can consequently cause damage to the Ozone layer. By: Guest Contributor, Penny Atkinson. Carbon monoxide is not only harmful to humans but it is one of the six major air pollutants. Whenever carbon-based fuels burn such as coal, wood and oil, carbon monoxide is produced.

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