What is Ozone Hole?
The ozone hole is a thinning break in the ozone layer. A depletion in the ozone layers called an ‘ozone hole’ when the detected amount of depletion exceeds 50%. It was first discovered over the South Pole in the 1980s.
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It is doing this for a century. By now, it has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc. The demon is the drought that..
Over the last 25 years, the sand slowly takes control of the mouth of the Murray River, especially where the Murray meets the surf of the Southern Ocean and close the river mouth. It is Australia’s greatest waterway that’s declining. The undignified…
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