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

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen ... Protection Agency says in an online report. Ozone can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created, the EPA said.

Earth's ozone layer is vital to protecting all forms of ... adding that with these atoms, the ozone "can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created." Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs ...

Published in Nature, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina's research linked CFCs to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer. Initially utilized for their stability and nontoxic properties, CFCs were ...

scientists have found that a supernova explosion billions of light years away was so powerful that it "temporarily destroyed" some of the Earth's ozone layer in 2022. According to the New York ...

Just weeks earlier, the ozone layer over Antarctica had disintegrated ... In these cycles, ozone (O₃) is destroyed when NO reacts with it, producing nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and oxygen (O₂).

The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction event, say scientists. Around 250 million years ago, life on our planet was almost entirely wiped out during an event that has ...

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen ... Protection Agency says in an online report. Ozone can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created, the EPA said.

It has long been suspected that the ozone layer high in the atmosphere that protects life from ultraviolet light was largely destroyed during the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period ...