Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. Sponsored Content. Its depletion was one of the major problems of the 1980s.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide (12). Sponsored Content. What Climatology Is Not. By nature, they are warmer and more humid than a garden. Deforestation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In making the Endangerment Finding, EPA put six types of substances, most notably carbon dioxide and methane, into a single category of “well-mixed greenhouse gases.” The category of “volatile chemicals” includes a number of different chemicals that cause ozone pollution.

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