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

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 ...

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

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

A huge scare was had in Indonesia after a Soviet Union spacecraft crashed to Earth, falling into the Indian Ocean, just a few kilometers off the coast. However, it was not a curren ...

HFC-23 emissions from chemical plants in eastern China and elsewhere likely violate an international climate agreement ...

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

A groundbreaking scenario study in the top journal Nature is now looking far beyond today, presenting projections of the ...