Scientist says Asia threatens ozone layer

  • 28/01/2000

  • Kuensel (Bhutan)

The failure of China and India to phase out dangerous chemicals threatens the progress made in healing the earth's protective ozone layer, the man who discovered the ozone hole over antarctica said on Sunday. Since British scientist Joe Farman identified the hole in 1985, the volume of ozone-killing substances released into the atmosphere has been cut but more needed to be done, he said.