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The natural — and unnatural — history of air on Earth

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How CFCs destroyed the ozone layer

Gabriel Walker recounts Thomas Midgley's invention of inert refrigerants, how CFC breakdown in the stratosphere destroyed ozone, and the discovery of the Antarctic hole.

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