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Ozone Layer Suffers Record 40-Percent Loss Over Arctic

GENEVA -- The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays – ultraviolet radiation – has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.The Arctic's damaged stratospheric ozone layer isn't the best known "ozone hole" – that would be Antarctica's, which forms when sunlight returns in spring there each year.

 

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