Sentences with phrase «in its ozone layer»

We managed to stop putting a hole in the ozone layer by phasing out the chemicals that were causing it (cholofluorocarbons) and, as a result, the hole is closing and there are millions fewer cases of skin cancer than there would otherwise have been.

We have, for example, already taken some measures to deal with one of the probable causes of the growing holes in the ozone layer, and to reverse the destruction of European forests by acid rain.

By the late 1980s it became clear that global atmospheric pollution causing both the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer had become critical threats to life on earth (Henderson - Sellers & Blong 1989).

Everything that has happened since then, including the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer, makes it clear that a future world could not sustain a population of even the present number at a higher level of industrial development without reaching environmental limits.

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

I live in Australia, skin cancer capital and right below the hole in the ozone layer, yet I still couldn't get enough vitamin d. No matter what I did, it took pregnancy vitamins + maximum vitamin d to get me to acceptable levels.

Notably, Terada and his colleagues say, previous studies have shown that the overall proportions of oxygen isotopes in the ozone layer also are skewed toward above - average concentrations of oxygen - 17 and oxygen - 18.

Those atoms» origin in the ozone layer might also help explain a longstanding mystery about some grains of lunar soil brought back by Apollo astronauts.

In October 1983, Farman discovered that a huge hole had opened up in the ozone layer over Antarctica — and that it was man - made.

Good news for fans of planet Earth: The seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was at its second - smallest point in the past 20 years, according to new research from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

CFCs were banned from spray cans in the United States and Canada in the late 1970s, and the appearance of a «hole» in the ozone layer over Antarctica in the early 1980s created an international consensus that CFCs must go.

In 1994 the Chrysler Corporation had a gaggle of hapless cartoon penguins peer through a hole in the ozone layer in its ad for new vehicles fitted with air conditioners free of destructive chlorofluorocarbons.

Similar scandals erupted over the effects of scores of industrial applications, ranging from sulfur dioxide and acid rain, to certain aerosols and the hole in the ozone layer, to leaded gas and cognitive impairment, to the granddaddy of them all, fossil fuels and global climate change.

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, which allows harmful ultraviolet radiation to penetrate our atmosphere, is finally starting to heal.

In «Don't Blind NASA to Earth's Climate» [Science Agenda], the editors refer to NASA as having «spotted a dangerous, growing hole» in the ozone layer in the 1980s.

«Mini-Holes» have opened in the ozone layer over northern Europe and Canada in the past few weeks.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

The researchers suggest that the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic would have grown in size by an additional 40 % by 2013.

The increased wind speeds seem to be a result of cooling in the upper atmosphere, caused by the hole in the ozone layer above the pole, which is of course the result of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) pollution.

Historically, researchers tackling issues such the hole in the ozone layer and the eradication of smallpox have come together in a highly effective manner.

The Great Barrier Reef lies directly below the largest hole in the ozone layer, which means the region receives significantly more UV radiation than other place on Earth.

In 1985, a trio of British researchers noticed a hole in the ozone layer, our protection against harmful UV rays, over the Antarctic.

As the light from the star passes through the Earth's atmosphere some of it is absorbed in the ozone layer.

The whole country is aware that it is increased ultraviolet light caused by the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica that makes the sun so vicious.

That there hole in the ozone layer gets blamed for all sorts of mischief.

large areas of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)-- clouds in the ozone layer - were present over the Arctic region at altitudes between 14 and 26 km.

The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has expanded to near - record levels, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday.

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has expanded to near - record levels, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday.

With ozone layer depletion just beginning, large holes in the ozone layer are rare now; but the frequency and severity of ozone layer depletion will increase with time.

Overall temperatures in the ozone layer were the lowest for 50 years....

In the mid-1980s, scientists discovered that a seasonal hole was forming in the ozone layer over the South Pole.

An image provided by NOAA shows the hole in the ozone layer in 2015.

Now, that hole in the ozone layer is shrinking.

«The best example is the hole in the ozone layer,» she explains.

The Audi S8, the Jaguar XJR, and the Mercedes S63 AMG 4Matic have no interest in stitching up the yawning hole in the ozone layer, in saving baby whales or rain forests, or in setting a shining example of social responsibility and self - denial.

If you find yourself blowing a hole in the ozone layer, ask yourself if you're frightened to be edited and whether you trust your editor.

And it's much worse in Australia and New Zealand — thanks to a hole in the ozone layer the size of North America.

Not unlike a breach in the ozone layer, an ever - expanding black hole is spreading at an alarming rate and threatening to overtake the Earth.

Now, scientists have discovered that manmade GHGs and associated climate change are likely to have a severe adverse impact on human health as bad as — if not worse than — the hole in the ozone layer.

With ozone layer depletion just beginning, large holes in the ozone layer are rare now; but the frequency and severity of ozone layer depletion will increase with time.

It seems like the effort has all been worth it, as Professor Susan Solomon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a team of scientists from NCAS and the University of Leeds report the «first signs of healing» of the ozone layer, confirming predictions that the hole in the ozone layer could close by the middle of this century.

large areas of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)-- clouds in the ozone layer - were present over the Arctic region at altitudes between 14 and 26 km.

Don't you know that there's a hole in the ozone layer that's going to give you cancer and burn your face off?!? 1990s Sucker: What?!? Oh my God!

Changes in ozone layer concern mainly the stratosphere and I used to think there are very few molecules (even atoms, in fact) upward.

In the period from 2000 - 2015, the hole in the ozone layer shrank by more than 4 million square kilometers — nearly a billion acres — according to a new report in the journal Science.

HFCs, which are used primarily as refrigerants in air conditioning, were phased in as a replacement for CFCs in the 1980s and 1990s in an attempt to stop the growth of the hole in the ozone layer.

«Although significant ozone depletion mostly affects the Antarctic, conditions in the ozone layer over the Arctic are sometimes sufficient to create substantial depletion.

No proof exists that CFCs were causing the problem in the ozone layer.

... served on the IPCC Solomon was chosen to lead the National Ozone Expedition to McMurdo Sound in Antarctica to investigate the hole in the ozone layer in 1986 and another in 1987.

``... This new research is interesting and provides a novel perspective on changes in the ozone layer.