Good news: The ozone layer is finally healing
 

Good news: The ozone layer is finally healing
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Nearly 30 years after the landmark Montreal Protocol went into effect to protect our planet's stratospheric ozone layer, there is finally evidence that the protective blanket that shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation is healing.*

In other words, stratospheric ozone is coming back, baby... but slowly.*

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While the healing of the ozone layer has taken longer than initially expected when scientists first raised the alarm about the ability of long-lived chemicals, k**wn as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, to deplete the protective ozone layer, the new findings offer a rare instance of positive environmental news in a time of growing concern about other growing planetary challenges.* Read more...


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