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Effect of COVID-19 on Environment

The Environmental Blog

The water bodies get polluted due to discharge of waste water into the drinking water bodies. Due to air pollution the ozone layer gets depleted and that was nothing but an indication of increasing global warming. The above image shows how much pollution level was in 2019 and hence ozone layer was disappeared.

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How Reusing Items Can Help The Environment

The Environmental Blog

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming.

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Global Methane Pledge: 150 nations now part of drive to slash emissions by 2030

Business Green

First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030. Methane is the cheapest and fastest way to slow down global warming in the years ahead," said Timmermans. "If

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UN: Slashing methane emissions 'one of the best ways' to curb global temperature rise

Business Green

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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How To Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Bureau

GHG inventories also apply to products whereby the climatic impact of a product is calculated over its lifecycle – from the product’s design to end-of-life waste processing. . This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG. Global Warming Potential (GWP) Measurement Standards.

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Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year

Grist

Other problematic sources of air pollution include methane, which produces hazardous ground-level ozone that is linked to health conditions such as lung damage, chest pain , and exacerbated respiratory diseases. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 million deaths per year is “a serious undercount.”

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming. Carbon dioxide is a better alternative, though its use still contributes to global warming.