by faster | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: March 17, 2020 SNIP: Starting decades ago, international governments phased out a class of chemical refrigerants that harmed the ozone layer and fueled global warming. Now, a new study indicates that the remaining volume of these...
by faster | May 22, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: ABC News (Australia) DATE: May 22, 2019 SNIP: According to a study published today in Nature, emissions from eastern China of the chlorofluorocarbon CFC-11 have been increasing by 7,000 tonnes a year since 2013. The findings are based on air monitoring...
by faster | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC News DATE: July 9, 2018 SNIP: Cut-price Chinese home insulation is being blamed for a massive rise in emissions of a gas, highly damaging to the Earth’s protective ozone layer. The Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) found widespread use of...
by faster | May 28, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Nature and The Outline DATE: May 28, 2018 SNIP: The Montreal Protocol was designed to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by enabling reductions in the abundance of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere. The...