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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
"Mission: To provide leadership and encourage partnership
in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling
nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without
compromising that of future generations."
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
"The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to
protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been
working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people."
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
"NOAA is a federal agency focused on the
condition of the oceans and the atmosphere." It is part of
the Department of Commerce.
Ozone Hole Watch (NASA)
"The ozone hole is not technically a 'hole' where no
ozone is present, but is actually a region of exceptionally depleted
ozone [about 30% depletion] in the stratosphere over the Antarctic that
happens at the beginning of Southern Hemisphere spring
(August-October)."
European Environment Agency (EEA)
"The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to
help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's
environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and
reliable information to policy making agents and the public."
GreenPeace
"Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a
voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action."
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