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A new study warns that burning up thousands of old satellites yearly could release aluminium and other metals into the upper ...
Stricter air-quality rules, pushed through in the last days of the Biden administration, face an uncertain future under a ...
The room swelled with gleeful shrieks and multiplying laughs, and soon the entire nest of balloons was bouncing and swaying with a crowd of all ages. The show centers on an inflatable installation ...
"They are slowly destroying the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere which protects us from ultraviolet radiation," Ulland said. Tech. Sgt. Walter Wright, of Duluth, ran in a marathon with ...
LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) – We’re still two months away from the Great Texas Balloon Race, but the events and the headliner for the annual festivities have been revealed. Held every year in Longview, the ...
Ozone layer depletion, is simply the wearing out (reduction) of the amount of ozone in the stratosphere. Depletion begins when CFC’s get into the stratosphere. Ultra violet radiation from the ...
Music, hot air balloons and family fun are all the rage at the Alabama Jubilee Festival in Decatur. The Memorial Day tradition will be held at Point Mallard Park on May 24-25th. The fun starts ...
Hot air balloons make me anxious. Yes, I have gone skydiving, snowboarded in back backcountry, and done some other adrenaline-pumping activities...yet hot air balloons make my heart race. But, of ...
CFCs were prominently used in refrigerators and air conditioning units until the 1970s when they were banned over the concern of ozone depletion. You can learn more about the CFC tracer program here.
Weather balloons are a weather tool that has been used by the National Weather Service since the 1930s. Fact sheet about weather balloons These balloons carry what's called a radiosonde ...
A man in Rajasthan's Baran died this morning after he allegedly got stuck in a hot air balloon and fell after its rope snapped, officials said. The incident, caught on camera, took place during an ...
In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches from 11 stations, including Grand Junction, as the federal agency ...