UN sounds alarm over ozone-damaging nitrous oxide

UN sounds alarm over ozone-damaging nitrous oxide
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 21, 2013 - Levels of nitrous oxide, a gas that both depletes the ozone layer and stokes global warming, could nearly double by mid-century, the UN warned on Thursday. "We need all hands on deck to combat the serious and significant increases in N2O [nitrous oxide] levels in the atmosphere," UN Environment Programme (UNEP) chief Achim Steiner said in a report coinciding with the world climate talks in W ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/UN_sounds_alarm_over_ozone-damaging_nitrous_oxide_999.html