The aim of this study was to investigate the levels secondary school students’ knowledge about three Global Environmental Problems: Warming, Acid Rain, and Ozone Layer Depletion. 638 7th grade (N=316) 8th (N=322) students enrolled in five different schools participated study. survey method used determine global environmental problems. In study, drawings (separate for each topic) open-ended ques...

It is estimated that nearly 450,000 Australians get skin cancer every year. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight has been identified as the cause of more than 95% of skin cancers in Australia. Accordingly, the focus of skin cancer prevention programs is reducing exposure to UV radiation. In Victoria, improvements in sun protection behaviours and reductions in sunburn and melanoma incidence ...

This paper presents the investigation results of UV measurement at different level of altitudes and the development of a new portable instrument for measuring UV. The rapid growth of industrial sectors in developing countries including Malaysia, brings not only income to the nation, but also causes pollution in various forms. Air pollution is one of the significant contributors to global warmin...

1. INTRODUCTION Over the past 60 years, for the reasons shown in Figure 1, the engineering industry has found halogen-containing cleaning solvents to be technically very effective. More recently, the chemical inertness, non-flammability, low toxicity and convenience of 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane, has led to the wide use of products based on CFC-113 in electronics applications. Evidence of t...

[1] The presence of chlorine radical species in the lower troposphere has been postulated, but only indirect evidence of its existence has been reported.We present the first direct spectroscopic observations of up to 15 ± 2 pmoles/mole-air chlorine oxide (ClO) in the mid-latitude boundary layer and confirm a previous discovery of the existence of bromine oxide (up to 6 ± 0.4 pmoles/mole-air BrO...

The impact of man-made chemicals on the environment, and in particular, the ozone layer, has been investigated over the last 20 years. The phaseout of CFCs under European Regulations and the Montreal Protocol has already taken place and HCFCs are set to follow. A wide range of alternative refrigerants with zero ozone depletion potential have already been developed as replacements for the refrig...

We assess the roles of long-lived greenhouse gases and ozone depletion in driving meridional surface pressure gradients in the southern extratropics; these gradients are a defining feature of the Southern Annular Mode. Stratospheric ozone depletion is thought to have caused a strengthening of this mode during summer, with increasing long-lived greenhouse gases playing a secondary role. Using a ...

The large burden of sulfate aerosols injected into the stratosphere by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 cooled Earth and enhanced the destruction of polar ozone in the subsequent few years. The continuous injection of sulfur into the stratosphere has been suggested as a "geoengineering" scheme to counteract global warming. We use an empirical relationship between ozone depletion and chlor...