Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when ...

Ozone pollution spikes, which can cause respiratory and cardiac issues, have become increasingly premature and widespread ...

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It won’t be computer models that save us, but people: who take responsibility for future generations and choose to act.

This summer, learn how you can protect your health and help reduce ground-level ozone pollution, with some simple steps for ...

As global temperatures rise, these overlapping events are turning local air pollution into transcontinental threats.

To figure out how future launches could affect the ozone layer, we first built a database of ozone-depleting ... and has research collaborations with the IAU Centre for Protection of the Dark & Quiet ...

Fully realized “mega-constellations” of 550-pound satellites, which might be 30% aluminum, could add 360 tons a year, likely enough to harm the ozone layer, according to a 2024 paper.

The ozone layer will be lost up to 0.05% each year over Antarctica, according to some models. Even such a small depletion of ozone would slow current efforts to recover and sustain the ozone layer ...