Media Reports
(U.K.) THE MIRROR, November 13, 1998

Reprinted with the permission of THE MIRROR Syndication International , U.K.



A recent satellite shot taken by the US space agency NASA shows the awesome scale of the deadly hole in the Earth's ozone layer. It is now three times as big as Australia and still growing. It threatens to produce a "quiet epidemic" of skin cancer among Earth's inhabitants because of greater exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. And the Environmental Investigation Agency pins the blame on the widespread use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons, which wipe out protective ozone in the atmosphere. Experts warn that the Northern Hemisphere faces equally disastrous ozone depletion.