It was the smoking gun proving that CFCs were chomping away at the ozone layer like so many high-altitude Pac-Men. It was Anderson’s most important contribution to science to date. And it was ...

Ozone is a protective atmospheric layer found at an altitude of about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles). It acts as a sunlight filter, shielding life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays that put ...

Nearly 30 years after the landmark Montreal Protocol went into effect to protect our planet's stratospheric ozone layer ... boosting the formation of high altitude clouds. The study found that ...

Temperatures increase with altitude and can reach as high as 4500F ... an area of high concentration of ozone, known as the ozone layer, which is vital for protecting life on Earth from the ...

Human-induced destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer — which lies between 10 and 50 km altitude — was first detected in the mid 1980s, and has remained a serious environmental concern ...

Atmospheric physicists Paul Newman and Luke Oman built a simulation of the Earth’s atmosphere and then proceeded to strip away our protective ozone layer. Their computer model reproduced the chemistry ...

The ozone layer shields the Earth from most of the ... Instead, it's down to the polar vortex, the high-altitude currents that normally bring cold air to the polar regions. This has split in ...

The British Antarctic Survey scientist Joe Farman, who helped identify the “hole” in the ozone layer over the southern ... above 22km in altitude, which showed a precipitous decline in the ...