Ozone Layer

The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.
Photo: UNEP

Monday’s Daily Brief: Ozone layer heals, 'regional conflagration' risk rises over oilfield attacks, South Sudan update, Myanmar genocide threat remains

16 September 2019
Climate and Environment

A recap of Monday’s top stories: The ozone layer is on track to repair; Instability rises over oilfield attacks in Saudi Arabia; General Assembly chief Espinosa bows out; Disaster and conflict displace thousands in Asia Pacific; Sexual violence unpunished in South Sudan; Genocide threat remains for Rohingya.

The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.
Photo: UNEP

News in Brief 16 September 2019

16 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime
  • Thousands displaced in Asia Pacific
  • Sexual violence still going unpunished in South Sudan
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A September 2019 visualization of the ozone layer over the Antarctic pole. The purple and blue colors show areas of most ozone depletion.
NASA

Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime, UN environment agency declares on World Day.

16 September 2019
Climate and Environment

At the current momentum, scientists predict the planet’s protective shield of gas - or ozone layer as we know it - will be completely healed as far as some regions of the planet are concerned, by the 2030’s, the UN’s environmental agency (UNEP) revealed on Monday.