axiosA United Nations report says Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing. Though it won't fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, it encouraging finding shows how much we can achieve when facing serious challenges such as #climatechange if every country is committed to make the effort. And Science will prevail.
UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066
DENVER (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four-years scientific assessment found recovery in progress, more than 35 years after every nation in the world agreed to stop producing chemicals that chomp on the layer of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere that shields the planet from harmful radiation linked to skin cancer, cataracts and crop damage.