How to shrink an ozone hole

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How’s the ozone hole actually doing? Ida Emilie Steinmark finds out

The thinning of the ozone layer over the Antarctic, commonly known as the ozone hole, shocked the world when it was discovered in the 1980s. What followed was a historic international environmental effort – and now a new study can confirm it is paying off.

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