The recovery of the ozone layer over Antarctica cannot be taken for granted and requires constant vigilance.

That’s the message from Dr Jonathan Shanklin, one of the scientists who first documented the annual thinning of the protective gas in the 1980s.

This year’s “hole” in the stratosphere high above the White Continent is the smallest in three decades.

From the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49965556