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.

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

It has been 40 years since scientists revealed the shocking discovery of a large hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, a ...

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

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds that ...

Scientists now project that breathable oxygen will remain for roughly another billion years before a major atmospheric transformation undermines Earth's habitability.

What is ground-level ozone? The sunlight and high temperatures interact with chemicals in the air and create a toxic layer.

Ozone as a layer several kilometers up in the atmosphere protects living beings, including humans, from ultraviolet rays. But ...