Ozone layer depletion
Global environmental problems · Biology
Study notes
The Antarctic ozone hole (discovered 1985) was as big as North America — CFCs from old fridges and sprays. Australia has the world's highest skin-cancer rates — under the thinned ozone. The Montreal Protocol (1987) banned CFCs — the hole is now healing, the only global environmental treaty that fully worked. Your sunscreen fights the UV that ozone used to block.