The phase out of banned ozone-depleting substances has resulted in the ozone layer now being on track to recovery, the Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances reports.
Deterioration of the ozone layer is a threat to humans due to exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. Thanks to the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals, this deterioration has now been turned around and a recovery is underway.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 was awarded to Paul Crutzen, once a professor at MISU, together with Mario J. Molina and Frank Sherwood Rowland for research on the ozone layer and its deterioration.
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