Research into the impacts of rocket and satellite air pollution is being cut by the Trump administration. Experts say the ...

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

Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986. Colder-than-average temperatures and strong winds in the stratosphere circling Antarctica ...

One of the scientists who discovered the hole in the ozone layer 40 years ago is proud of his work, but he now has major ...

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

But high-altitude soot could shift large-scale circulation ... likely enough to harm the ozone layer, according to a 2024 paper. “We don’t know, really know, what the particles look like ...

The satellites will sunset while the ozone layer’s recovery has unpredictably ... persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude. Communications Earth & Environment.

Until recently, the high-altitude destruction of satellites was ... In the 1970s and 1980s, the ozone layer was devastated by a group of chemicals known as CFCs that were widely used in fridges ...

Altitude, too, means more UV ... In the decades since, the "hole" in the ozone layer that human activities contributed to has been repairing. New Zealand researchers say changing weather dynamics ...

A layer of ozone – a molecule of three oxygen atoms ... Loading Tully said the polar vortex was a high-altitude wind - much higher even than the jet streams - that swirls above Antarctica.

New threats to the ozone layer The ozone layer faces new threats ... fly long periods at altitude and return to their launch site, generally costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, limiting ...

which first accumulate at an altitude of about 50 miles (85 kilometers) where most of the satellite material vaporizes, to reach the altitudes where the ozone layer resides. Only then would the ...