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'Green News Report' - February 14, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Read More: Floods, Energy, Green Jobs, Climate, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Green Energy, Drought, Video, Big Oil, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Water, Tipping Point, Climate Science, Green News, Anti-Science, Sustainability, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Extreme Weather, State of the Union, Global Warming, Republicans, Bernie Sanders, Ozone Hole, Marco Rubio, Barack Obama, Carbon Tax, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Troubling Discovery In The Ozone Layer

Posted 02.01.2013 | Green
Read More: Carbon Absorption, Ozone Layer, Atmosphere Carbon Absorption, Environment, Ozone Carbon, Ozone Layer Winds, Ozone Hole Winds, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Green News

From Climate Central's Lauren Morello: High above Antarctica, the atmosphere is slowly recovering from the decades-long barrage of manmade chemical...

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The Ozone Hole Has Shrunk To The Second Smallest It's Been In 20 Years

Posted 10.25.2012 | Green
Read More: Ozone Hole Size 2012, Ozone Hole Size, Antarctic Ozone Hole, Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinking, Ozone Hole 2012, Climate-Change, Antarctic Ozone Hole Size, Antarctic Ozone Hole Size 2012, Ozone Hole, Antarctic Ozone Hole 2012, Ozone, Ozone Hold Shrinking, Green News

From LiveScience: The ozone hole above the Antarctic has hit its maximum extent for the year. Due to warm temperatures, the opening in the protecti...

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Ozone Hole May Be Getting Smaller, UN Says

Reuters | Posted 11.14.2012 | Green
Read More: Antarctica, Antarctic Ozone Hole, Antarctic Ozone, Ozone Hole 2012, Ozone Hole Antarctica, Reuters, Ozone Antarctica, Antarctica Ozone Hole, Climate-Change, Ozone Hole, Antarctic Ozone Hole 2012, Ozone, Green News

GENEVA (Reuters) - The hole in the ozone layer, the earth's protective shield against ultraviolet rays, is expected to be smaller this year over the A...

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Facing Existential Risk: How the U.S. Survived the Atom Bomb and the Ozone Hole

William Heegaard | Posted 08.01.2012 | College
Read More: Human Extinction, Nuclear War, Ozone Depletion, Thesis Project, Cold War USSR, Existential Risk, US Foreign Policy, College Thesis Project, The Thesis Project, Cold War, Ozone Hole, College News
William Heegaard

In this project I examine the history behind American perception of human extinction. I explore how existential risk has shaped foreign policy by tracing the domestic debate over nuclear war and ozone depletion.

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Climate Disruption: Drought and Dead Trees

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 12.05.2011 | Green
Read More: Drought, Alberta Tar Sands, Dr. Reese Halter, Bark Beetles, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Houston, Ozone Hole, Global Warming, Trees, Climate Disruption, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

History is rich with lessons, but will political hubris take heed of past civilizations annihilated by drought? The Akkadian, Moche, Tiwanaku, Mayan, and Anasazi to name but a few are well documented in our history books.

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The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011 | Green
Read More: Clean Air Act (1990), Lead, Tsca, Nitrosating Compounds, Lead-Based Paint, Pcbs, Ozone-Depleting Substances, Dioxin, Asbestos, Chemicals, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Disease, Health, Fully Halogenated Chlorofluoralkanes, Erin Brockovich, Hazardous Waste, Hexavalent Chromium, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Cancer, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Chromium, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News
Bill Chameides

Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.

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Ozone Layer Suffers Record Loss

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.05.2011 | Green
Read More: Ozone Hole 2011, Ozone Arctic, Arctic Ozone Loss, Arctic Ozone, Ozone Loss 2011, Ozone 2011, Ozone Layer, Ozone Layer Loss, Environment, Ozone Layer 2011, Ozone Record Loss, Ozone Hole, Green News

GENEVA -- The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays – ultraviolet radiation – has thinned about...

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PHOTO: Ozone Depletion Has STOPPED, Should Be Restored Mid Century

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: NASA Aura Satellite, International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, South Pole Ozone Hole, Ozone Depletion, Nasa, Montreal Protocol, Ozone Picture, Ozone Hole Photo, Antarctic Ozone Hole, Ozone Layer, Depleting Ozone, Ozone Monitoring Instrument, Ozone Hole, Ozone Photo, Ozone Healing, Ozone Hole Better, Ozone Hole Restored, Ozone Hole Stopped, Ozone Getting Better, Ozone Depletion Stopped, Smarter Ideas, Green News

September 16 marks the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorated as the anniversary of that day in 1987 when the Montrea...

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Our Flame Retardants -- Ourselves

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Health, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Pcbs, Consumers, Ddt, Chemical Pollution, Chemicals, Fire Retardants, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Freons, Pbdes, Green News
Bill Chameides

Introduced as the miracle compounds, halocarbons have revealed themselves as fools good. The flame retardant chemical often leach, leading to lower IQs and depressed fertility.

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