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Montreal Protocol & ozone depletion

By fighting the ozone hole, we accidentally saved ourselves

With the Montreal Protocol, life on Earth dodged a bullet we didn’t even know was headed our way.
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The ozone hole shrank, showing the world can solve environmental crises

Even with the complications and caveats, the world’s response to the ozone crisis should be seen as an instructive, even inspiring, success story — one that can perhaps inform our response to the climate crisis.

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Can the success stopping the ozone hole be applied to climate change?

It's been 35 years since the Montreal Protocol helped heal a hole in the ozone. Can those lessons curb climate change in less than 30 years?
Mario Molina, Mexico chemistry Nobel winner, dies at 77
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Mario Molina, Mexico chemistry Nobel winner, dies at 77

Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 for his work on how industrial chemicals caused the ozone hole, threatening all life on Earth and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, has died in his native Mexico City.

The iciest waters around Antarctica are less icy
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The iciest waters around Antarctica are less icy

An unusual combination of events caused the Weddell Sea to lose more sea ice than in recent years.
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Test your climate change knowledge

Have you been paying attention to The Post’s climate-related coverage? If so, this quiz should be an easy A.
Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big
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Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big

Cold temperatures and a strong polar vortex allowed chemicals to gnaw away at the protective ozone layer in the north.
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