Collaborative atmospheres

In 1913, French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discovered a protective chemical blanket between the Earth and our neighbourhood nuclear reactor, the Sun. This blanket is better known as the ozone layer – the section of the stratosphere with the highest concentration of ozone (O₃), a pale blue inorganic gas that shields us from many of the Sun’s harmful rays. Without it, researchers predict that life might not even exist on our planet. The 17 million km² ozone hole above Antarctica has therefore rightly been a focus of much research, concern and policy intervention.