Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

This is a comparatively dry atmospheric layer associated with weather balloons, high-altitude planes, and polar stratospheric clouds—as well as the ozone layer. Credit: Crystal-K/Getty Images ...

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 ...

Re-entries of SpaceX Starlink satellites are causing environmental concerns by releasing aluminium oxide, which could harm the ozone layer. Scientists ...

Ozone is a protective atmospheric layer found at an altitude of about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles). It acts as a sunlight filter, shielding life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays that put ...

Human-induced destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer — which lies between 10 and 50 km altitude — was first detected in the mid 1980s, and has remained a serious environmental concern ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

Atmospheric physicists Paul Newman and Luke Oman built a simulation of the Earth’s atmosphere and then proceeded to strip away our protective ozone layer. Their computer model reproduced the chemistry ...

Until recently, the high-altitude destruction of satellites was ... In the 1970s and 1980s, the ozone layer was devastated by a group of chemicals known as CFCs that were widely used in fridges ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover from human-made damage following the near total phasing out of ozone-depleting substances, according to a UN-backed report.