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Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4 percent per decade in the total amount of Ozone in Earth's Stratosphere since around 1980; and a much larger, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions during the same period. The latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as the ''ozone hole''.