Isro today successfully launched a cryogenic sampler payload-- an instrument to measure ozone depleting substances in the earth's atmosphere -- using a ballon for Germany-based Max Planck Institute.

Europeans are regularly exposed to unsafe amounts of ground level ozone, a gas which can have serious health effects, a report commissioned by the European Union showed yesterday. "The threshold set

According to a report by the

The just-concluded 27th meeting of the Montreal Protocol Fund's executive committee meeting has sanctioned a fresh tranche of grant-in-aid for 14 Indian projects to meet the incremental cost for

The UN environment Programme is launching a $7million assistance plan for developing countries to help them phase out ozone-depleting substances (OZS). The initiative, launched in Montreal at the

The United Nations Environment Programme announced that it is launching a major initiative, which will help developing countries phase out ozone-depleting sustances (ODS). This initiative, launched

A Chinese meteoroligst has suggested building an Ozone Observation Station in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to study the thin ozone layer above the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Zhou Xiuji,

Recovery of the earth's ozone layer will take years longer than previously expected, with Australia's peak scientific and research organisation pointing the finger at China's gas

Even if all the countries of the world sincerely implement the Montreal Protocol of 1987 for phasing out the elements depleting the ozone layer around earth, the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other

India will receive a fresh grant of $2.9 million (about Rs 12.08 crore) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for phasing out of ozone depleting substances like chlorofluro-carbons