WHAT IS THE OZONE LAYER?
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WHAT IS THE OZONE LAYER?

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Ozone is a molecule comprised of three oxygen atoms that occurs naturally in small amounts. In the stratosphere, roughly seven to 25 miles above Earth's surface, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, shielding the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer and cataracts, suppress immune systems and also damage plants. Although warmer-than-average stratospheric weather conditions have reduced ozone depletion during the past two years, the current ozone hole area is still large compared to the 1980s, when the depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica was first detected. In the stratosphere, roughly seven to 25 miles above Earth's surface, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, shielding the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation This is because levels of ozone-depleting substances like chlorine and bromine remain high enough to produce significant ozone loss. In 1987, the Montreal Protocol was agreed, which led to the phase-out of CFCs and, recently, the first signs of recovery of the Antarctic ozone layer.

History of this topic

The ozone layer is healing! Scientists confirm hole over the Antarctica is recovering - and could soon close for good
4 weeks ago
The ozone layer is HEALING! Hole over Antarctica is smaller and started later than expected this year, promising study reveals
3 months, 3 weeks ago
SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Good News About Hole in the Antarctic’s Ozone Layer, and New Hope for Patients with LSCD
4 months, 1 week ago
Hole in protective layer on road to recovery in decades
1 year, 1 month ago
Hole in protective layer on road to recovery in decades
1 year, 1 month ago
Large ozone holes reappear over Antarctica: Study
1 year, 4 months ago
Earth’s ozone layer may not be recovering. Here’s why that’s a concern
1 year, 4 months ago
IFGTB Coimbatore observes International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer
1 year, 6 months ago
How a hugely successful global treaty is delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer
1 year, 10 months ago
SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Banned CFCs still increasing in atmosphere
1 year, 11 months ago
Editorial: The healing of the ozone layer gives hope, but addressing climate change will be harder
2 years, 2 months ago
Climate success: Ozone layer on track to recover
2 years, 2 months ago
Ozone layer is slowly healing, with the hole to be mended by 2066, U.N. says
2 years, 2 months ago
U.N. says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066
2 years, 2 months ago
Hole in ozone layer will mend by 2066, says UN
2 years, 2 months ago
Ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066, says new United Nations report
2 years, 2 months ago
UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066
2 years, 2 months ago
What happened to the world's ozone hole?
3 years ago
Ozone hole over Antarctica larger than usual, scientists say
3 years, 6 months ago
Hole in Earth's protective ozone layer larger than usual and surpasses size of Antartica, say scientists
3 years, 6 months ago
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2021: 5 Easy Ways to Live a More Eco-Friendly Lifestyle
3 years, 6 months ago
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2021: Here’s How You Can Protect the Ozone Layer
3 years, 6 months ago
Ozone layer hole gets bigger than Antarctica, researchers say this year it's 'larger than usual'
3 years, 6 months ago
The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica
3 years, 6 months ago
Explained: How Montreal Protocol saved Earth from becoming nearly 1 degree hotter
3 years, 7 months ago
How healing the ozone layer helps us fight climate change
3 years, 7 months ago
A 1980s ban on CFCs to heal the ozone layer is also shaving degrees off global warming, study says
3 years, 7 months ago
Surge in ozone-depleting CFCs appears to have been reversed, ozone layer recovery back on track
4 years, 1 month ago
Ozone layer: China’s clampdown on harmful emissions puts rescue back on track
4 years, 1 month ago
When economic incentives helped fix the ozone layer hole : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
4 years, 4 months ago
Cold Temperature and Strong Winds Lead to Formation of Deep Antarctic Ozone Hole
4 years, 5 months ago
Climate change: Ozone hole over Antarctic ‘largest and deepest’ in recent years, scientists warn
4 years, 5 months ago
World Ozone Day 2020: Earth's Ozone Layer is Finally Healing Itself in Many Parts of the World
4 years, 6 months ago
World Ozone Day 2020: What Really is the Rare Gas That Keeps Us Safe From UV Rays?
4 years, 6 months ago
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer: All You Need to Know
4 years, 6 months ago
Largest-ever Arctic ozone hole closes
4 years, 11 months ago
Largest Ozone Hole Ever Recorded over North Pole Has Now 'Healed Itself' and Closed
4 years, 11 months ago
Scientists say ozone layer hole, discovered last month, over the Arctic region has healed itself
4 years, 11 months ago
Largest ozone layer hole over Arctic closed? Here's what we know so far
4 years, 11 months ago
Arctic ozone hole that become the region’s largest ever recorded has closed
4 years, 11 months ago
Arctic ozone layer hole is biggest ever recorded, scientists say
4 years, 11 months ago
Ozone layer is recovering, thanks to climate change treaty signed over 30 years ago, finds study
5 years ago
The ozone layer is healing, new study finds
5 years ago
Ozone-depleting substances caused half of Arctic warming, sea ice loss from 1955 to 2005
5 years, 2 months ago
South Pole’s ozone hole shrinks to smallest since discovery
5 years, 5 months ago
The Antarctic ozone hole is the smallest since it was discovered
5 years, 5 months ago
Ozone Preservation Day: Five questions you wanted to ask about the depletion of the Ozone layer
5 years, 6 months ago
World Ozone Day 2019: 32 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is still on the mend
5 years, 6 months ago
Spike in banned ozone-eating CFC gases linked to China in new research
5 years, 10 months ago
Antarctic Ozone hole healing confirmed in new study by IIT Kharagpur researchers
6 years, 4 months ago

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