“The new 2024 report from the World Meteorological Organization proves that slow process is continuing as scientists have expected, says A. R. Ravishankara, an atmospheric chemist at Colorado State University. The report shows that, over 2024, total levels of ozone in the atmosphere were above the 2003–2022 average for most of the planet—just a strip near the equator and a small patch of the Antarctic coastline south of Africa were below that marker.”

From Scientific American.