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

Yet this trail-blazing treaty, conceived with the finding of the ozone hole, is a climate-diplomacy superhero. The book ...

It is expected to recover to 1980 levels by 2040, a new U.N. report found. When the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered in 1985, Paul A. Newman was shaken as a scientist. "I lost a lot of ...

Molina and Rowland’s study was validated in 1985, when a team of English scientists found a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica that was later linked to CFCs. The "hole" is actually an area ...

In the 1980s, the world came together to ban CFCs, commonly used chemicals that were destroying the atmosphere’s ozone layer. "The disaster was in terms of food. Crops that couldn't be grown ...

Chlorofluorocarbons were banned under the ... “The recovery of the ozone layer is on track,” said David W. Fahey, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chemical ...

CFCs were commonly used in refrigerants, aerosol propellants and solvents until they were discovered to be the driving force behind the destruction of the ozone layer. Under the Montreal Protocol ...

But the longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone layer is dominated by natural factors, not human CFC emissions.” Another year has passed, and that stubborn Ozone Hole over ...

These compounds, known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could float up into the stratosphere and break down a protective layer of ozone, allowing more ultraviolet light to enter the atmosphere and ...