They now predict that the ozone layer may recover fully by 2066. By September this year, the ozone hole (pictured in blue) ...

The ozone layer is now on track to be restored to 1980s levels over much of the world by 2040, over the Arctic by 2045 and the Antarctic by 2066.

Ozone, or O3, occurs in two forms in the atmosphere: what scientists call “good ozone” in the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere that sits 6 to 31 miles above the surface, and “bad ...

In 2021, that hole was larger than usual – bigger than the size of Antarctica itself, but now NOAA says that the Antarctic ozone layer is projected to recover "sometime around 2070." ...

NOAA announces ozone layer now 50% healed The ozone layer is now halfway back to pre-1980 levels after a 34-year worldwide chemical ban. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

Now there appears to be another, even more sprawling area of ozone layer depletion over the tropics, which covers roughly half the Earth's surface area and where about half the world's population ...

Antarctic wildlife is being sunburnt: Hole in the ozone layer now lingers over the continent for more of the year - leaving seals and penguins exposed to dangerous levels of UV, study warns.

Back in the 1980s, scientists made the shocking discovery that human pollution had worn a hole clean through Earth's protective ozone layer. Now, almost 40 years later, scientists from the ...

Jane Burston, CEO of the Clean Air Fund, discusses the launch of their new roadmap on tropospheric ozone – out today as part ...

In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or ...

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