The European Space Agency delivered some good news for climate change deniers recently: the infamous hole in the ozone over Antarctica is shrinking.
Discovered: Nuclear disaster lingers in Japanese waters; the hole in the Antarctic ozone hasn't been this small since the '90s; the problem with algae-derived biofuels; the amazing shrinking ancient hippo.
When the term "ozone hole" comes up it's usually followed by talk about how it's huge and gaping and the sun is going to burn the earth like a fried egg in two years unless we all switch to electric cars and squiggly lightbulbs. Not this year. In 2012, the hole in the ozone layer was really small.
Discovered: Today's pop music is loud and monotonous; termites send their elderly on suicide missions; storms can damage the ozone layer; Monday isn't actually a mood killer.
A Reagan-era policy enforced under Bush, is implemented by Obama, to jeers
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