Have you ever stopped to wonder if humanity is truly capable of reversing the damage we’ve done to our planet? The story of ...

The ozone layer over Antarctica, damaged by air pollution decades ago, has fortunately been recovering in recent years.

Humans have been depleting the ozone layer with chemical products. The unintentional experiment started in the late 1920s, when Thomas Midgley and other industrial chemists began to produce ...

It was the smoking gun proving that CFCs were chomping away at the ozone layer like so many high-altitude Pac-Men. It was Anderson’s most important contribution to science to date. And it was ...

known as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, to deplete the protective ozone layer, the new findings offer a rare instance of positive environmental news in a time of growing concern about other growing ...

NASA modelling shows that the hole in the ozone layer would have covered the entire Earth by 2060 if CFC production had not been outlawed by the Montreal Protocol in the 1980s. Credit: NASA ...

researchers believe chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) aren't the only things to ... Massive 2022 Eruption Reduced Ozone Layer Levels Nov. 20, 2023 — The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano changed the ...

Many listeners will remember the hole that formed in the ozone layer, due in large part to human-made chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. My guest this week is Dr. Paul Newman ...

indicating a recovery possibly due to CFC reductions. But in October, when the hole is often largest, the ozone level in the middle stratospheric layer shrunk by 26% from 2004 to 2022, said the ...

Ozone layer depletion, is simply the wearing out (reduction) of the amount of ozone in the stratosphere. Depletion begins when CFC’s get into the stratosphere. Ultra violet radiation from the ...

The ozone layer is a trace gas in the stratosphere ... which were caused by widespread use of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons. “The culprit behind ozone depletion was not aerosols in ...