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Is Earth's ozone layer still at risk? 5 questions answered

  • Written by A.R. (Ravi) Ravishankara, Professor of Chemistry and Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
False-color image of ozone concentrations above Antarctica on Oct. 2, 2015.NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Editor’s note: Curbing damage to Earth’s protective ozone layer is widely viewed as one of the most important successes of the modern environmental era. Earlier this year, however, a study reported that ozone concentrations in the...

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