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ULTRA-VIOLET RADIATION - HARMFUL EFFECTS AND BENEFITS

Environment Policies to Protect Mother Earth

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The climatic changes over the last decade has endangered the survival of all living species on earth. There is now increasing awareness among the general public, and regular campaigns have helped in formatting some of the current government policies.

There are efforts by environmentalists to save the planet by spreading awareness on various environmental issues, and one that has caught the attention of the entire world is the emission of greenhouse gases and the resulting ozone depletion.

There is now a ban imposed by many countries, on chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), a green house gas, which helps to deplete the ozone layer. This is one of the several moves taken as part of a global effort to contain the peeling of the ozone, which will have deleterious and often irrepairable health and environmental hazards.


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