OZONE HOLE
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have released a set of educational materials on protecting children from ultra-violet radiation, as young people today are, they say, "most vulnerable and most exposed. The information packs point out that annually, there are 2-3 million new cases of non-malignant melanomas and more than 130,000 melanoma skin cancer cases worldwide, causing 66,000 deaths; "children are disproportionately affected," it warns. As a result, with the high level ozone layer still ...
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