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

Published in Nature, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina's research linked CFCs to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer. Initially utilized for their stability and nontoxic properties, CFCs were ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

Holes in the ozone layer formed not just over Antarctica—as they currently ... In 1979, when scientists were just beginning to understand that ozone could be destroyed, the hole over Antarctica was ...

The stratospheric ozone layer has undergone severe depletion as ... and is only slowly destroyed by photochemistry after being transported to the stratosphere. Emissions of nitrous oxide have ...

With thousands of satellites and fragments orbiting Earth, space debris is becoming a growing concern—but could it also threaten our planet’s protective ozone layer? Scientists are now ...