Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond. Scholars, artists, and activists are invited to take part in a new forum co-sponsored by Trinity College and The University of the West Indies that will reach beyond borders, across languages, and among the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Most ozone resides in the stratosphere (a layer of the atmosphere between 10 and 40 km above us), where it acts as a shield to protect Earth's surface from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.
The ozone is so thin in this part of the world that the weather report on the nightly news includes five-minute sunburn alerts. Ozone is Earth's natural sunscreen. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.In the 1980s, scientists discovered that manmade chemicals destroy ozone to the point where an actual ozone hole occurs.The good news is that this hole isn't getting any larger.he ozone is so thin in this part of the world that the weather report on the nightly news includes five-minute sunburn alerts. Ozone is Earth's natural sunscreen. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.