ozone layer
Example Sentences
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Just a few years prior, the world was starting to get anxious about the vanishing ozone layer.
From Salon
Freon began to be phased out in 1987 because it was destroying Earth's ozone layer.
From Scientific American
They would have been zapped by the harmful UV rays piercing through the planet’s damaged ozone layer.
From Scientific American
But the damage they cause the ozone layer would also have released additional planet-heating carbon dioxide - currently locked up in vegetation - into the atmosphere.
From BBC
Some researchers now hypothesize that supernova-generated particles known as cosmic rays might have depleted the ozone layer, increased cancer rates in ancient organisms, sparked wildfires, and even started an ice age.
From Science Magazine
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