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Continue reading →: Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: A Complex ConnectionFor decades, the world has faced two of the most pressing environmental challenges: ozone depletion and climate change. While these crises are often discussed separately as one is framed around the “ozone hole” and harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and the other around rising global temperatures and extreme weather. Yet, they…
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Continue reading →: World Car-Free Day 2025Every year, on 22 September, the world pauses to imagine what our cities could be like without the roar of engines, the haze of exhausts, or the endless traffic jams. World Car-Free Day 2025 invites us to do more than imagine. It challenges us to act, even if only for…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the Ozone Layer: Importance and ThreatsIn the mid-1980s, scientists revealed something astonishing: a massive thinning of Earth’s protective ozone layer directly over Antarctica. This “ozone hole” wasn’t a literal hole, but it was big enough to alarm the world. Why did it form in such a remote place? Why Antarctica, and not over busy, industrial…
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Continue reading →: World Ozone Day 2025Every year on September 16, the world pauses to mark World Ozone Day, a reminder of both a remarkable environmental victory and the ongoing work needed to protect our skies. The ozone layer, discovered to be thinning dramatically in the 1980s, sparked one of the most successful global environmental agreements…
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Continue reading →: The Climate-Conflict Nexus: How Disasters Drive Migration and InstabilityClimate change is often described in terms of melting glaciers, rising seas, and rising temperatures. But behind these environmental shifts lies a powerful social and political story: disasters are driving people from their homes and fuelling instability in vulnerable regions. This is the climate-conflict nexus is a feedback loop where…
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Continue reading →: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Bottled WaterThe bottled water industry has exploded over the last three decades. In 1990, bottled water was considered a luxury. Today, it is a $300+ billion global market and projected to keep growing. More than 600 billion plastic bottles are produced every year. Marketing campaigns have positioned bottled water as a…






