Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), seemingly harmless compounds, are the real culprits, as experts claimed that they could damage ...

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

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Jonathan Shanklin, one of the ozone hole's original discoverers, using a Dobson spectrophotometer inside the Faraday Station ...

Judge pauses Trump plan to revoke Harvard enrollment of foreign students Trump's pressure on Harvard is part of a broader campaign to compel universities, law firms, news media, courts and other ...

How generous are you? Neil and Sophie discuss Mark Zuckerberg and what it takes to be a modern-day philanthropist.

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