American Meteorological Society

Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

2019 was one of the three warmest years since the statistics were released, according to the annual report of the American Meteorological Society.

It involves more than 500 climatologists from 61 countries. According to the data, only 2015 and 2016 were warmer.

Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year because of climate change, a major US report said on Wednesday.