Arctic faces ozone damage by 2020,says scientist
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26/10/2000
One of the British scientists who discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic fears the same damage could hit the Arctic by 2020. Jonathan Shanklin said the earth's ozone layer was cooling, which makes its recovery more difficult.Shanklin, one of three scientists to discover the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, told BBC Radio: "It's getting colder because of the greenhouse gases that are being liberated by all the emissions we have at the surface.