Human-made chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) led to the depletion of the ozone layer which is creating a hole over Antarctica. Depletion of the ozone layer can impact your health severely.

The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty signed by 196 countries in the late 1980s, one that limited the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) known to destroy the ozone layer.

Seong Jun Park, Anisha Shakya, John T. King. Depletion layer dynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions under Poiseuille flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019; 201900623 DOI: 10. ...

Last month there was good news for the ozone layer, when a study found that the hole in the southern hemisphere had significantly shrank due to an 1987 international treaty, the “Montreal ...

If present trends continue, the assessment projects that the ozone layer’s average thickness will be returned to 1980 levels by 2040. Since the ozone layer has thinned the most at the poles, it ...