What Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer? | NOVA | PBS

In the 1980s scientists discovered a crucial part of the Earth’s atmosphere was extremely thin.

The extreme thinning of the Ozone layer threatened to bring on a global crisis from destroying plants and ecosystems to sky-high skin cancer rates. So, what happened?

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