It was just two weeks ago when media outlets were nearly going apoplectic over the discovery of the “biggest hole” in the ozone layer over the North Pole. A week later, however, it appears that giant hole is already closed.
When the hole was first discovered, CNN explained that, “holes in the ozone layer are reported every year in the Antarctic, where temperatures are much colder, no sizable holes in the ozone layer have been recorded in the Arctic since 2011.” The outlet quoted Vincent-Henri Peuch, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, as saying, “The ozone has been, in this layer, almost completely depleted.”
.png)
.png)
