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Thanks to decades of international cooperation and the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, the Earth's vital ozone shield against ultraviolet radiation is recovering. The UN estimates that it could return to its state in the 1980s by the middle of the century. An encouraging sign for the planet According to a bulletin published on Tuesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was smaller…
The ozone layer is recovering. Boston environmental educators, activists say the fight against climate change isn’t over.
Throughout the 1980s, chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were everywhere — from spray paint and hairspray to refrigerators and air conditioners. There was one problem: Research at the time revealed the synthetic compound could eat away at the atmospheres’ ozone layer, allowing hazardous levels of ultraviolet radiation to reach Earth. There was time to prevent this, scientists thought, but they were wrong. In 1985, three scientists from the British A…
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