Sentences with phrase «on ozone damage»

And she happened to point out some very current and needed studies on ozone damage to plants.

Not exact matches

Ever since the 1987 Montreal protocol phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone - depleting gases, Earth's damaged ozone layer has been on the mend.

Previous research focused on ways to limit the ozone - damaging reactions produced by nonreactive aerosols.

Once miraculous, chlorofluorocarbons that caused ozone damage are now helping scientists track its effects on the Southern Ocean.

It neutralizes most of them before they can reach the stratosphere, preventing them from damaging the ozone layer and wreaking havoc on global climate.

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

Certain particles may have a damaging effect on the ozone layer, vital for keeping harmful UV rays away from the surface of the Earth.

The ozone layer helps shield life on the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer, cataracts, and suppress immune systems, as well as damage plant life.

China and South Asia, on the other hand, will see the most ozone - related damage to wheat, rice and soybean crops because of the chronically high levels of toxic air pollution.

The ozone layer is crucial since it blocks out the harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun known to increase the risk of skin cancer and cataract damage, in addition to other harmful effects on plants and animals.

The potential risks around sulfate aerosol solar geoengineering include alteration of regional precipitation patterns, its effects on human health, and the potential damage to Earth's ozone layer by increased stratospheric sulfate particles.

Neutralizes free radicals on the upper layer of the skin to help prevent the impact of ozone damage to skin

The stratospheric ozone layer protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet light, which damages DNA in plants and animals (including humans) and leads to skin cancer.

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The recovery of the damaged ozone layer which protects life on Earth from harmful solar radiation is no longer happening worldwide.

The potential risks are enormous: disrupting the food chain, damaging the ozone layer, the loss of monsoon rains in Asia — the list goes on.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

Keutsch and his colleagues knew that the aerosol they were looking for would need to neutralize sulfuric, nitric and hydrochloric acid on its surface, so as to avoid damaging the ozone.

It's easy to find a number of success stories on the power of political decisions as the industry has opposed using economic arguments also changes that have been easy to make (like some required changes for cars) or that did indeed allow for rapid technology development as reduction of sulfur emissions or replacement of ozone damaging chemicals by safer ones.

(Note: Ozone is a good thing high up in the stratosphere, where it is naturally produced and blocks ultraviolate (UV) rays from harming life on Earth, but a bad thing in the troposphere, where it acts as main ingredient of smog and is harmful to breath and damages crops).