New research found that instead of closing up during November, the hole in the Ozone layer over the Antarctica has stayed open well into December.

Scientists are warning Antarctica's animals and plants are being exposed to twice as much UV radiation as they were in the 1970s.

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually long time.

Seal pups and fledgling penguins could suffer sunburn and skin cancer, and it’s all down to volcanoes and bushfires.