[ad_1] China on Tuesday defended its controversial decision to lift the 25-year ban on swapping tiger bones and rhinoceros horns after environmental advocates warned that the government had actually signed a "death …
Read More »A chemical depleting the banned ozone layer is used illegally in China
[ad_1] A new study reveals that ozone depleting compounds are still used in China, even though the Montreal Protocol banned them worldwide. Eastern China has released significant amounts of this substance, called …
Read More »Location of a large mysterious source of banned substance depletion of the ozone layer discovery
[ad_1] The compound, carbon tetrachloride, contributes to the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet rays. As a result, carbon tetrachloride production has been banned worldwide since …
Read More »Mystery Source Of Already Banned Ozone-Depleting Substance Discovered
[ad_1] The darker colors in the map represent the areas with the highest carbon tetrachloride emissions. This is a concentration of the already-banned substance in eastern China. ( Lunt, Park, et al. …
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