Assigned online reading

  Ozone Science: The Facts Behind the Phaseout, by US EPA  [1,400 words]

  The Impacts of Ozone Depletion (ACE On-Line Fact Sheet Series, Atmospheric Research and Information Centre, October 1998), consisting of these parts:

• Human Health Effects of Ozone Depletion: Skin Cancer  [700 words]
• Human Health Effects of Ozone Depletion: Eye Disorders  [500 words]
• Human Health Effects of Ozone Depletion: Immunological Effects  [600 words]
• Ozone Depletion & Aquatic Life  [600 words]
• Ozone Depletion & Land Vegetation  [600 words]
• Other Effects of Ozone Depletion  [500 words]

  Read for main points Summary [500 words] and Who Owns the Ozone Hole? [2,500 words] from The Ozone Layer Destroyers: Whose Chlorine and Bromine Is It? by Jim Vallette, Greenpeace International, November 1995.

"Ozone Hole Stretches Over South America," Associated Press, 5 October 2000 (posted online by Environmental News Network)  [2 Web pages, 500 words] 

   Optional online resources

• "Ozone Depletion at Record Level, UN agency Says," Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters News Service, 9 October 2000 -- According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the ozone hole over the Antarctic is the deepest on record since scientists began measuring the seasonal phenomenon 15 years ago.
• "Largest-Ever Ozone Hole Over Antarctica" -- NASA image, dated 6 September 2000
• Ozone Depletion Home Page, Stratospheric Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- especially see The Science of Ozone Depletion
• Our Ozone Shield, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1997 -- well-told story of stratospheric ozone thinning, but only up to 1990
• Ozone, Our Planet, October 1997 -- ten articles about ozone in a special issue of this publication from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• OzonAction Programme Home Page, UNEP IE -- provides a clearinghouse function to assist developing countries with their phase-out of ozone depleting substances (ODS), under the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.
• Ozone Depletion, ACE On-Line Fact Sheet Series, Atmospheric Research and Information Centre, October 1998 -- excellent informational essays are grouped in three parts: the science of ozone depletion, the impacts of ozone depletion, and managing ozone depletion
• Ozone Depletion, Robert Parson, Univ. of Colorado -- Four sets of pages: Introduction to the Ozone Layer; Stratospheric Chlorine and Bromine; The Antarctic Ozone Hole; and UV Radiation and its Effects
• The Ozone Hole Tour, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge University, UK -- detailed science of the ozone depletion problem
• Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion, 1998 Assessment, Executive Summary, Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- details changes in ultraviolet radiation, and effects on animal and human health, on terrestrial ecosystems, on aquatic ecosystems, on biogeochemical cycles, on air quality, and on materials
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), NASA -- contains frequently-updated information about the ozone hole
• Ozone Depletion Page, Ozone Action -- Washington, DC-based non-profit public interest organization focused exclusively on the atmospheric threats of global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion
• Ozone Crisis, Greenpeace -- "Industrial society's chemical warfare against the ozone layer during the past sixty years has brought grave peril to the well being, indeed, the continuity of life on the planet."
• Money To Burn: The World Bank, Chemical Companies & Ozone Depletion, a Greenpeace Report by Steve Kretzmann, September 1994
• "Ozone Damage Worsens in Arctic," Mark Bourrie, Inter Press Service, 27 December 1998
• "National Environmental Group Warns Gore Could Flunk His Favorite Subject," Friends of the Earth nes release, 16 September 1999

  Other resources

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