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New data reveals one of the smallest ozone holes in decades: Study
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
This year's ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from decades of global action under the Montreal Protocol.
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Study reveals healing ozone hole helps Southern Ocean take up carbon
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new study suggests that the ozone hole's negative effects on the Southern Ocean's carbon uptake are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease.
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Scientists detect molten rock layer hidden under Earth's tectonic plates
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the first time the layer's global extent and its part in plate tectonics.
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Research: Ozone depletion over North Pole causes weather anomalies
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], July 11 (ANI): Although the ozone hole over Antarctica is well known, few people are aware that the protective ozone in the stratosphere periodically breaks down over the Arctic, depleting the ozone layer there. Prior to that, it occurred in the spring of 2011 and most
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Scientists reveal large, year-round ozone hole over tropics
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): Scientists revealed a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics comparable in depth to that of the well-known springtime Antarctic hole, but roughly seven times greater in area. The observed data agree well with the cosmic-ray-driv
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Earth's 2017 ozone hole smallest since 1988, courtesy warm air
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 3 (ANI): The hole in the Earth's ozone layer- that acts like a sunscreen, shielding Earth from potentially harmful UV radiation- was the smallest observed since 1988.
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