Ottawa-Sana
Scientists from the Canadian University of Waterloo discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer in the atmosphere above the equatorial region, seven times larger than the famous ancient hole that was located over the Antarctic region.
The professor, scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Departments of Biology and Chemistry from Cheng Bin Luo University, explained in an interview with the British newspaper The Independent that the equatorial hole extends over all seasons since the eighties and its area is approximately 7 times larger, unlike the ozone hole in the Antarctic, which appears only in the spring, pointing out The hole is more than 30 years old and affects a vast area that can affect half the world's population.
Lu noted that a photochemically no tropical ozone hole was expected in the region and that the tropical ozone hole is not visible in the original observed data and has not changed fundamentally across the seasons.
Lu warned that the presence of the hole could be harmful to the environment because it could lead to an increase in ultraviolet radiation at ground level and affect 50 percent of the Earth's surface area.
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