Ozone Layer
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Ozone pollution spreading across India, Delhi-NCR emerges as prime hotspot: CSE report
India | Jul 01, 2026, 02:19 PM ISTAs per the CSE analysis, Delhi-NCR has emerged as the country's most persistent ozone hotspot. The Delhi-NCR region has exceeded the national eight-hour standard on every day of the 71-day study period.
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World Ozone Day 2025: Date, theme, slogans, speeches, posters and drawings
Lifestyle | Sep 16, 2025, 09:56 AM ISTWorld Ozone Day 2025 on September 16 spreads awareness about protecting the ozone layer. Here’s the date, theme, slogans, speeches, poster and drawing ideas.
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World Ozone Day 2022: Quotes, Slogans, Significance, Theme and interesting facts
Lifestyle | Sep 16, 2022, 08:34 AM ISTWorld Ozone Day was first observed in the year 1995. This day is celebrated to create awareness about the importance of the ozone layer. Sunlight makes life, but the ozone layer creates life as we know it today.
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Covid lockdowns cut NOx emissions, global ozone by 15%: NASA
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World Ozone Day 2020: Slogans, Significance, Theme and interesting facts about Ozone Layer
Lifestyle | Sep 16, 2020, 11:01 AM ISTWorld Ozone Day 2020 or International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2020 is celebrated every year on 16 September, This year, we are celebrating 35 years of the Vienna Convention and 35 years of global ozone layer protection. The day is observed to spread awareness about ways that are effective in protecting the ozone layer.
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Largest ozone layer hole over Arctic closed? Here's what we know so far
Science | Apr 27, 2020, 10:08 AM ISTThe largest hole in the earth's ozone layer over the Arctic has closed. Scientists have confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer which was 1 million square kilometers wide over the Arctic has now healed.
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Ozone depletion played a role in mass extinction: Study
Aug 29, 2018, 06:46 PM ISTThe event, also known as the Great Dying, occurred when a massive volcanic eruption took place.
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Scientists shocked at mysterious source of Ozone-destroying banned chemical CFC-11
May 17, 2018, 05:22 PM ISTA new analysis of long-term atmospheric measurements by NOAA scientists shows emissions of the chemical CFC-11 are rising again, most likely from new, unreported production from an unidentified source in East Asia.
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NASA reveals ozone layer hole is closing and this is the reason
Jan 06, 2018, 05:27 PM ISTStratospheric ozone protects life on the planet by absorbing potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation.
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World Ozone Day! Environment Ministry launches initiative to reduce damage to the Ozone layer
World | Sep 16, 2016, 02:08 PM ISTEvery year on September 16, the International day for the preservation of Ozone layer is celebrated worldwide. On the eve of Ozone Day,the Ministry of Environment has launched a major research and development initiative to
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What's up with the giant hole in Ozone layer?
Lifestyle | Jul 02, 2016, 12:10 PM ISTMiami: Signaling a positive sign for the environment, a group of researchers today stated that the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has begun to shrink. Since 2000, the September ozone hole was
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Ozone layer on track to recovery: UN
World | Sep 11, 2014, 08:32 AM ISTGeneva: The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades, thanks to concerted international action against ozone depleting substances, said a UN report on Wednesday.The conclusion was made
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Ozone layer recovery to take 40 years: Experts
India | Sep 15, 2012, 03:08 PM ISTGeneva, Sept 15: The ozone layer outside the Polar regions will take 40 years to recover to its pre-1980 levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.Over the past decade, stratospheric ozone in the