Protective ozone layer dwindles to record low (The Gazette)

[Drew Wilson]

The ozone layer shielding the planet from ultraviolet rays has deteriorated to unprecedented lows over the Arctic, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday.

Much of the destruction occurred over northern Canada last month and the depleted air mass has now shifted to Europe, but could swing back during the next few weeks, said scientists.

"It was over Canada, and now it's rotated round and peaked over Scandinavia," said atmospheric scientist James Drummond, at Halifax's Dalhousie University, whose team has been monitoring the destruction from a research station in Eureka on Ellesmere Island.

Measurements from the ground, atmospheric balloons and satellites show that the Arctic region lost about 40 per cent of its ozone layer from the beginning of the winter to late March. The WMO said the highest loss previously recorded was about 30 per cent over the entire winter.

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Sorry, I'm a little late on this one.

[Filickie]

This is because of the increasing rate of pollution on the planet earth that Ozone is getting deteriorating that way...And this is really dangerous for the life on earth .... Survival will become so hard this way..!