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Space Debris Accumulation in the Stratosphere Threatens Major Environmental Risks
The growing presence of satellite space junk, as more satellites enter Earth's orbit, has raised concerns about environmental impacts. Pollution from burnt-up satellites contributes to changes in atmospheric chemistry, with metals like aluminium potentially harming the ozone layer. Scientists warn that satellite re-entries are contributing to a ris...
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Could a Supernova Threaten Earth’s Survival? Here's What You Need to Know
Supernova explosions have the potential to harm Earth’s atmosphere, particularly the ozone layer. However, no stars close enough to cause damage are currently identified. The risks are low, but gamma-ray bursts, caused by neutron star mergers, may pose an even greater threat in the future.
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Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites Could Deplete Earth's Ozone Layer, Study Warns
The ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which can cause skin cancer on exposure and even disrupt crop yields and food production.
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A Cosmic Blast "Temporarily Destroyed" Some Of Earth's Ozone Layer In 2022: Scientists
In a mind-boggling discovery, scientists have found that a supernova explosion billions of light years away was so powerful that it "temporarily destroyed" some of the Earth's ozone layer in 2022.
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Australia's Massive Wildfires Widened Ozone Hole, Finds Study
The smoke triggered by the wildfires went to heights of upto 30 kilometres, where the smoke triggered chemical reactions harming atmospheric ozone.
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Ozone Layer Is Slowly Recovering, Expected To Be Healed Completely In Decades: UN Report
The scientists hope that if the current trends are followed, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 levels by the year 2040.
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Scientists Discover Year-Round Ozone Hole Over Tropics, May Lead to Increased Ground-Level UV Radiation
Scientists have discovered an ozone hole in the earth’s lower stratosphere that is comparable in depth — but seven times larger — to the springtime Antarctic ozone hole. The large, all-season ozone hole has been detected over the tropics, which make up half of the Earth's surface area and are home to about half the planet’s population. The ...
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Ancient Microbes May Help in Search for Life on Other Planets, Claims New Study
A team of scientists have reconstructed the condition in which the earliest organism on Earth must have existed. The reconstruction was done using light-capturing proteins in living microbes. In future studies, the scientists hoped to resurrect model rhodopsins in a laboratory using synthetic biology techniques.
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International Day For Preservation Of Ozone Layer And Its Significance
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer: A fragile shield of gas protects the Earth from the harmful rays of the sun. But this shield, called the ozone layer, is threatened by industrial and other forms of pollution.
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World Ozone Day 2020: Ozone Facts, Slogan And Significance
Ozone Day 2020: Life on our planet as we know would not be possible without the ozone layer. Ozone is a highly reactive gas found in the upper layers of the atmosphere and protects life on earth from the Sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. World Ozone Day is observed on September 16 every year. This year the slogan for World Ozone Day is 'Ozone For Life'...
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Ozone Hole Grows Over Antarctica, But No Cause for Alarm: UN
The seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has widened to near-record size, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that efforts to save the earth's protective shield were still working.
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Scientists Alarmed at Short-Term Ozone-Eroding Gases
Researchers said that the damage gases do to the ozone layer is significant and likely to increase.
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Banned Substance Still Depleting Ozone Layer: NASA
In a significant revelation, NASA researchers have shown that the earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source, decades after the compound was banned worldwide.
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Space Debris Accumulation in the Stratosphere Threatens Major Environmental Risks
The growing presence of satellite space junk, as more satellites enter Earth's orbit, has raised concerns about environmental impacts. Pollution from burnt-up satellites contributes to changes in atmospheric chemistry, with metals like aluminium potentially harming the ozone layer. Scientists warn that satellite re-entries are contributing to a ris...
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Could a Supernova Threaten Earth’s Survival? Here's What You Need to Know
Supernova explosions have the potential to harm Earth’s atmosphere, particularly the ozone layer. However, no stars close enough to cause damage are currently identified. The risks are low, but gamma-ray bursts, caused by neutron star mergers, may pose an even greater threat in the future.
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Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites Could Deplete Earth's Ozone Layer, Study Warns
The ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which can cause skin cancer on exposure and even disrupt crop yields and food production.
-
A Cosmic Blast "Temporarily Destroyed" Some Of Earth's Ozone Layer In 2022: Scientists
In a mind-boggling discovery, scientists have found that a supernova explosion billions of light years away was so powerful that it "temporarily destroyed" some of the Earth's ozone layer in 2022.
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Australia's Massive Wildfires Widened Ozone Hole, Finds Study
The smoke triggered by the wildfires went to heights of upto 30 kilometres, where the smoke triggered chemical reactions harming atmospheric ozone.
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Ozone Layer Is Slowly Recovering, Expected To Be Healed Completely In Decades: UN Report
The scientists hope that if the current trends are followed, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 levels by the year 2040.
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Scientists Discover Year-Round Ozone Hole Over Tropics, May Lead to Increased Ground-Level UV Radiation
Scientists have discovered an ozone hole in the earth’s lower stratosphere that is comparable in depth — but seven times larger — to the springtime Antarctic ozone hole. The large, all-season ozone hole has been detected over the tropics, which make up half of the Earth's surface area and are home to about half the planet’s population. The ...
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Ancient Microbes May Help in Search for Life on Other Planets, Claims New Study
A team of scientists have reconstructed the condition in which the earliest organism on Earth must have existed. The reconstruction was done using light-capturing proteins in living microbes. In future studies, the scientists hoped to resurrect model rhodopsins in a laboratory using synthetic biology techniques.
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International Day For Preservation Of Ozone Layer And Its Significance
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer: A fragile shield of gas protects the Earth from the harmful rays of the sun. But this shield, called the ozone layer, is threatened by industrial and other forms of pollution.
-
World Ozone Day 2020: Ozone Facts, Slogan And Significance
Ozone Day 2020: Life on our planet as we know would not be possible without the ozone layer. Ozone is a highly reactive gas found in the upper layers of the atmosphere and protects life on earth from the Sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. World Ozone Day is observed on September 16 every year. This year the slogan for World Ozone Day is 'Ozone For Life'...
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Ozone Hole Grows Over Antarctica, But No Cause for Alarm: UN
The seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has widened to near-record size, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that efforts to save the earth's protective shield were still working.
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Scientists Alarmed at Short-Term Ozone-Eroding Gases
Researchers said that the damage gases do to the ozone layer is significant and likely to increase.
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Banned Substance Still Depleting Ozone Layer: NASA
In a significant revelation, NASA researchers have shown that the earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source, decades after the compound was banned worldwide.
