A global agreement in 1987 to ban chemicals harming the ozone layer is working, scientists say.
The ozone layer - which is on track for recovery - protects against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sunHuman action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says.
The ozone layer is a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
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