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Threatened ozone layer shows first sign of recovery: U.N
2014-09-10 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The ozone layer that shields life from cancer-causing solar rays is showing its first sign of recovery after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study said on Wednesday, in a rare piece of good news on the environment. Experts said it was largely down to global action - a 1987 ban on man-made gases that damage the fragile high-altitude screen. The agreement would help prevent millions of cases of skin cancer and other conditions, they added. The ozone hole that appears over Antarctica has...
Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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ACC Testifies At Louisiana Field Briefing On EPA Ozone Regulations
2014-09-10 07:53:25| publicworks Home Page
American Chemistry Council (ACC) Vice President of Regulatory & Technical Affairs Michael Walls today testified at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority briefing in Lake Charles, La. regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) anticipated proposal to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone
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Indias ozone pollution kills enough crops to feed 94m a year
2014-09-07 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In just one year, ozone pollution in India caused the loss of enough crops to feed 94 million people that are living below the poverty line, according to a new study. Studying data from 2005, scientists concluded that in that year alone, ozone pollution killed 6 million tonnes of wheat, soybean and rice crops enough to have fed around a third of the countrys poor. Although ozone is essential in the upper levels of Earths atmosphere, at ground level it can be harmful. Ground level ozone is not...
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Study: surface ozone in India in 2005 damaged 6M tonnes of crops, enough to feed 94M people in poverty
2014-09-04 21:30:53| Green Car Congress
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