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Straight from the headlines of today's news, here is the story of the discovery of an ecological catastrophe - a disaster caused by man-made chemicals in the stratosphere that today are destroying the shield of ozone gas that protects the earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. An incisive look at one of the planet's most pressing ecological concerns, it tells the story of the discovery of ozone depletion, the fight to ban chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) and future prospects and prognoses.

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SHARON L. ROAN is a reporter for The Los Angeles Times and winner of the American Public Health Association's Ray Bruner Science Writing Fellowship. She has also received awards from the Florida Medical Association and the California Heart Association and has a degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.

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