ozone depletion

Ozone depletion

According to CNN scientist’s first detected ozone depletion in Antarctica in the 1970’s. Since then scientists have set up satellite, balloon and also ground-based instruments to observe ozone depletion. Today the ozone hole is now 9 million square miles. The ozone layer protects life on earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays and keeps out lethal UV radiation completely, but now with a hole in the ozone layer more people are at risk of developing skin cancer. Populations that are mostly effected are Australia and New Zealand. The main culprit for all of t...