Atmospheric hole discovered
Scientists have discovered a new phenomenon in the skies above Southeast Asia: a huge, invisible hole in the atmosphere’s lowest layer that may exacerbate the effects of Cambodia’s climate change. The hole – roughly twice the length of New Zealand and concentrated just east of the Philippines – is really an absence of what scientists call the “OH shield”, the atmosphere’s filtering, detergent layer that breaks down pollutants before they wreak havoc farther up. …
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/atmospheric-hole-discovered
