The vital ozone layer has continued to deplete in recent years over the densely populated mid-latitudes and tropics, while it is recovering at the poles https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2018/02/decline-stratospheric-ozone.html
- Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/18/1379/2018/
- Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction https://climatenewsnetwork.net/ozone-loss-may-have-caused-mass-extinction
- Ozone Pollution Maps Show Spikes Amid Broad Declines https://eos.org/articles/ozone-pollution-maps-show-spikes-amid-broad-declines
- UV Dosage Levels in Summer: Increased Risk of Ozone Loss from Convectively Injected Water Vapor https://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/835
- Tropospheric Ozone https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/slcps/tropospheric-ozone
Credits
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Narrator: David Attenborough
Interview: SWR
Video: UNEP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINKJNWtSiE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNGH1cILTPE
Video: Out of This World (1944) https://archive.org/details/out_of_this_world
Video: Ozone Hairspray Commercial https://archive.org/details/OzonHairspra
Sound: EpicStockMedia.com
Teaser image: Photo by Avi Richards on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/Z3ownETsdNQ
Editor: Climate State
