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Apr

2025

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IIT Kharagpur reveals Alarming Impact of Surface Ozone Pollution on India’s Major Food Crops

Academy, Environment & Social Impact, Expert Insight, Health, ResearcherAgriculture, air pollution, atmosphere, Climate Change, CORAL, crop health, crop productivity, Food Crops, Food Grains, food security, insufficient mitigation, Land Sciences, Maize, No Poverty, Ocean, population growth, rice, river, Surface Ozone, Surface Ozone Pollution, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Wheat, wheat yields, Zero Hunger

A ground-breaking study by Prof. Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath and his research group at the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), IIT Kharagpur, has revealed severe risks of surface ozone pollution on India’s major food crops. Published under the title “Surface ozone pollution-driven risks for the yield of major food crops under future climate change scenarios in India”, the study highlights how ozone pollution, a lesser-known but potent threat, could drastically reduce agricultural yields in the country. The Indian and world staple food grains wheat,…

Sep

2024

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By Poulami Mondal

No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropics

Environment & Social Impact, Expert Insight, Research & Innovation, Spotlight InnovationAntartica, atmosphere, Chemical depletion, CORAL, environment, Halogen, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, ozone, Ozone Depletion, Ozone Dunamics, Ozone Hole, Ozonesonde, Public Health, Satellite Ozone, Scientific finding, Spatiotemporal, Stratosphere, Stratospheric ozone, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, tropical ozone, Tropical Stratosphere

A ground-breaking study led by Prof. Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath from the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-Kharagpur), in collaboration with international researchers, has refuted previous claims of a severe ozone hole in the tropical stratosphere. The study provides reassurance that there is no significant ozone depletion in the tropics and no associated health threat. The recent study entitled “No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropical Stratosphere in Recent Decades," challenges earlier assertions of a year-round massive ozone hole in the tropics. The previous research suggested that such an ozone hole…