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That was quick. Just a week after an alarming report that a banned ozone-depleting chemical is being pumped into the air from somewhere in Asia, researchers claim to have found where some of it is coming from.
The substance in question is a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) called CFC-11, which was once used in refrigerators. Production of CFC-11 was banned in 2006 under the , which regulates chemicals that damage the ozone layer.
However, on 16 May at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado and his colleagues revealed that the rate…
