And, this is what you hear a lot about in the news, Kyoto, and all this kind of thing about destruction of the ozone layer.

Like the ozone layer, the magnetosphere is important to life on Earth because it protects us from most of the harmful radiation and hot plasma from the Sun, deflecting it into space.

Climate change and the depleted ozone layer are among the starkest examples.

And it claimed that international efforts to protect the ozone layer has averted millions of cases of skin cancer worldwide.

Its ability to destroy ozone has been known for decades, but the new research is the first to quantify the danger and compare it to other gases.