The global treaty to shrink the hole in the ozone layer by banning chlorofluorocarbons has worked, reports Scientific American.

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A new analysis shows that the hole in the ozone layer — which forms every Southern Hemisphere spring — is beginning to heal.

“We as a planet have avoided what would have been an environmental catastrophe,” Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains in Science. “Yay us!”

Central to this success is the 1987 adoption of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, a lengthy name for a global UN treaty that worked to halt the degradation the ozone layer by banning chlorine-containing chlorofluorocarbons (commonly known as Freon), used as refrigerants, solvents, and more.

Despite previous evidence in 2008 and 2011 that the ozone holescale but also be personal. It's a godsend that makes the issue of adding characters irrelevant. The real question is how deep we can dig down into the story."

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