The Australian Megafires Have Damaged the Ozone Layer

The smoke-induced chemical reactions from the wildfires in Australia’s Black Summer have caused the level of ozone above the mid-southern hemisphere to drop by 13 percent.

A new analysis revealed that the record-breaking fires in Australia in the summers of 2019 and 2020 blasted such high smoke that even the stratosphere of the ozone layer was damaged.

These bushfires along the east coast of the country from November ....