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Earth’s stratosphere has been shrinking for 40 years. That could one day screw with orbiting satellites. – Business Insider Australia
The stratosphere – the layer of Earth’s atmosphere between 7.5 and 31 miles up – is shrinking due to greenhouse-gas emissions, a new study found.
About 13km above our heads, the stratosphere begins.
That slice of sky – where supersonic jets and weather balloons fly – stretches up to 31 miles above Earth’s surface. But according to new research, this layer of the atmosphere has shrunk by a quarter-mile in the last 40 years.
A study published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters shows that humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions are behind the startling contraction.
As carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels enters the…
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