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Article: Is it getting worse under the sun? (ozone layer depletion)
- Article from:
- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
- Author:
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It seems almost every article and news report about sun safety says skin cancers are expected to increase "as the earth's protective ozone layer thins."
Even the federal government raises this specter. A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brochure notes that "recent measurements show that a thinning of the ozone layer has occurred and may increase until the turn of the century, when...efforts to ban emissions of man-made ozone-depleting chemicals may begin to reverse the damage." Scientists expect that, as the ozone layer thins, more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation will flood to Earth. So it's getting more risky, right?
Actually, no one ...
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Article: Pollution ban helping to heal hole in ozone layer.
The Evening Standard (London, England);
May 3, 2006 ;
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...Byline: MARK PRIGG THE ozone layer is slowly recovering because of ... journal Nature, they write that ozone levels have either stabilised or increased ... stabilise at pre-1980 levels. The ozone layer, 10 to 20 miles high in the stratosphere ...
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