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

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet energy from reaching our planet's surface ...

The hole in the ozone layer has made an unwelcome comeback. First spotted in the 1980s, the ozone hole over Antarctica caused concern due to the perceived risk it could cause an increase in skin ...

It's well known that Earth's ozone layer offers a protective barrier from the sun's harmful rays. Unfortunately, a famous hole in the layer exists over the Antarctic for a few months a year ...

The ozone layer above the Antarctic may be healing at last, according to a promising new study. The Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) found that the hole above the South Pole closed ...

In the 1980s, scientists found that chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol cans and refrigerators were destroying stratospheric ...

allowing for the ozone layer above Antarctica to open up, according to Copernicus. Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show this year’s ozone hole over the Antarctic.

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

A hole in the ozone layer seven times bigger than the one over the Antarctic continent has been discovered sitting over the tropics - and has been there for over 30 years. A scientist found the ...

Concentrations of ozone above Antarctica dropped extremely low in early July. Such early onset of the ozone layer's destruction has been recorded only about a dozen times in the 43 years since ...