Oct 4, 2011

Largest ever ozone hole in the Arctic

Nature - A hole that developed in the Earth's protective ozone layer over the Arctic this year was the largest ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere and spread over parts of northern Russia, Greenland and Norway, the journal Nature reports. For the first time, the hole was comparable to one that appears regularly over the Antarctic, researchers found.
The ozone layer in the upper stratosphere provides a shield against UV radiation from the sun that can cause skin cancer and catar - Nature