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Chemistry World September 16, 2014 James Urquhart	Ozone layer no longer thinning Scientists say that they are cautiously optimistic about the recovery of the ozone layer.
Chemistry World August 27, 2009 Tom Bond	Nitrous oxide key ozone destroyer Nitrous oxide is the single most important manmade substance reducing ozone in the atmosphere, according to US researchers.
Chemistry World July 27, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Storm on the horizon for ozone levels Summer storms can inject water vapor high into the atmosphere and trigger processes that degrade the ozone layer, say US chemists.
Chemistry World September 22, 2010 Andy Extance	Warming worry shades ozone success International measures fighting ozone depletion are working, according to the latest scientific assessment, but could elevate the climate change threat without continued effort.
Salon.com November 3, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	Life under the hole in the sky For the people of southern Chile, ozone depletion isn't a political issue -- it's a nightmarish reality. A report from the globe's ecological future...
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored.
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Andy Extance	Environmental priorities stymie hunt for stubborn ozone depleter The Earth's gradually healing ozone layer -- an iconic success in humanity's attempts to fix the environmental damage it causes -- is being set back by unanticipated lingering pollutants.
Chemistry World November 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: Nobels and Ozone Four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions... The health of the ozone layer is still in intensive care but the long-term prognosis is good...
Science News February 17, 2007	Science Safari: Ozone Depletion and Recovery Answers to questions about ozone depletion and the recovery of the ozone hole are now easy to find by researchers, as well as the general public, through a new online index developed by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.
Chemistry World July 19, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Antarctic Atmosphere Could Give Gaia Hypothesis a Boost The surprising discovery of significant quantities of iodine oxide in the lower atmosphere above Antarctica will have a potentially significant impact on current models of global atmospheric chemistry.
Chemistry World August 2008	Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists
Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Ian Randall	Mass extinction the result of acid rain and ozone loss Widespread rain as acidic as lemon juice and the destruction of as much as 65% of the ozone layer may have played a major role in the largest mass extinction in the fossil record.
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Chemistry World October 19, 2015 Rebecca Trager	The chemistry of diplomacy Vaughan Turekian will draw upon an atmospheric chemistry background and vast policy experience in his new job to promote science, technology, and engineering as integral components of US diplomacy.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago.
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas	Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan.
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Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.
Chemistry World October 6, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Global ozone pollution warning Current controls are failing to protect human health and the environment from increasing ground-level ozone, according to a report by the Royal Society.
Chemistry World October 21, 2013 Philip Ball	Chemistry's climate of scepticism It could be important for chemists to consider whether (and if so, why) there is an unusually high proportion of climate-change doubters in their ranks.
Chemistry World March 2009 Emma Davies	Fruits of the forest Last summer a team of UK scientists dragged the contents of their lab out into the jungle, to analyse the local atmosphere.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth	A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.
Scientific American June 2008 Philip Yam	Updates: Whatever Happened to Protecting Cells from Radiation? Ozone Warming... Anti-radiation... Quantum Novelty... Babbage Computer...
Geotimes June 2006 Michael Glantz	Global Warming: Whose Problem is it Anyway? Global warming is not a hoax. It actually happens naturally. Industrialization processes in rich countries and now in developing ones are abetting the naturally occurring greenhouse effect.
Geotimes July 2003 Tim Palucka	Lightning implicated in ozone over Africa About five years ago, atmospheric scientists studying ozone concentrations over equatorial Africa and the southern hemisphere of the tropical Atlantic came across a puzzling situation. Unexpectedly high levels of ozone in southern Africa were finally explained by an overlooked phenomenon: lightning.
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson	An ozone-depleting volcano According to a report in the May 15 Nature, the largest source of ozone-depleting bromine may in fact be natural: Volcanoes may spew as much as 140,000 tons of bromine oxide into the atmosphere each year.
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development.
Chemistry World October 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: Healing the world Although the role of science has not been strongly emphasised in discourse surrounding the Millennium Development Goals, the work of scientists contributes towards making the world a better place.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2008 Stoss & Stoss	Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE.
Geotimes April 2004 Naomi Lubick	EPA announces ozone hotspots The Environmental Protection Agency released a list yesterday of U.S. counties that need to come into compliance for amounts of ozone in the atmosphere at ground levels.
Chemistry World January 21, 2014 Peter Braesicke	Chemical modeling for air resources If you want to learn about the chemical composition of the atmosphere, this book by Jinyou Liang will be a useful companion.
Geotimes June 2007 Fred Schwab	Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events.
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Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz	What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished.
Outside March 2009 Micah Cratty	The Sky Was Falling A "where are they now?" field guide to popular calamities of yore
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 Simon Cotton	How everything connects From Stars to Stalagmites by Paul Braterman comprises 16 essays on a wide range of scientific themes, designed to bridge the gap between the chemist and the layman.
Chemistry World July 31, 2014 Caryl Richards	New source of hydroxyl radicals found in the clouds An international collaboration of scientists has discovered a previously unidentified source of tropospheric hydroxyl radicals generated by the interaction of ozone with the surface of clouds.
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee	Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary.
Chemistry World April 7, 2008 Kira Welter	Industrial emissions boost pollution at coastlines Pollution along our coastlines is worsened by chemical reactions that occur when emissions from ships and heavy industry combine with ocean air, US scientists have found.
Chemistry World November 2007 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Sharing the Wealth Constantly hunting for safer, cleaner alternatives to existing products is one of the things that chemists do best.
Chemistry World September 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Ozone-Destroying Chemicals to be Phased Out Faster Over 200 nations have agreed at a UN meeting to accelerate the phase-out of refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer. But the revised agreement may spur developing countries to churn out more ozone-depleting HCFCs in the short term.
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Cosmic Bursts to Blame for Mass Extinction Scientists say that a gamma-ray burst might have triggered the ice age that caused the Ordovician extinction 450 million years ago.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell	Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 James Urquhart	Wealth of undiscovered volatiles found drifting above orange groves Scientists have measured the exchange of hundreds of volatile organic compounds in the air above an orange grove in California and the ecosystem below. The finding could have implications for climate and air pollution models
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Fast Company December 2009 Anne C. Lee	Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50 On the first of December 1959, 12 nations signed a pact freezing territorial claims and banning military activity in Antarctica. Here's a tour.
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Hepeng Jia	Chemists join Olympic clean-up effort Chemists have played a vital role in improving Beijing's air quality for the Olympics, guiding the government's massive clean-up operation by highlighting and monitoring major pollution sources.