According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the area affected by the ozone hole reached its peak this year on Sept. 16. It was larger than that recorded in 2010 and 2012 but smaller ...

And it had grown extremely thin over Antarctica. So the ozone hole, as it became known, was absorbing less UV light than normal. In fact, from Sept. through Nov. of that year, the ozone levels in ...

The ozone hole is a seasonal phenomenon that starts to form during the Antarctic spring (August and September). The September-October 2013 average size of the hole was 8.1 million square miles (21 ...

The ozone hole is seasonal, appearing between September ... with a high degree of context—a rat encountering cheese in location A encodes a significantly different memory than when it encounters ...

Nearly 30 years after the landmark Montreal Protocol went into effect to protect our planet's stratospheric ozone layer, there is finally evidence that the protective blanket that shields us from ...

Thinner ozone means more UVB radiation raining down, causing higher risks of skin cancer and cataracts. The danger is still real, even as the hole shrinks. The battle for a stronger, healthier shi ...

ESA say atmospheric conditions were to blame for the new new - causing by an extremely strong polar vortex mixing with post-winter sunlight. A hole has opened in the ozone layer over the Arctic ...

(CNN)-- The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008 is larger in both size and ozone loss than last year, but not as large as in 2006, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The hole is a thinning ...