Sentences with phrase «ozone layer breakdown»
Extra measures to clamp down on the remainder of CFCs and on the HCFCs and HFCs could not only help avoid ozone layer breakdown, they could also proof an additional tool for the UN's efforts to combat climate change.
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Scientists from NASA and NOAA have been monitoring the ozone layer and the concentrations of ozone - depleting substances and their breakdown products from the ground and with a variety of instruments on satellites and balloons since the 1970s.
Although all of the substances the team studied work as catalysts — facilitating the breakdown of ozone into oxygen — the methyl halides are most effective, meaning that even in comparatively small quantities, they pose a significant threat to the ozone layer.