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

The 1985 discovery identified a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer over our southernmost continent, triggering immediate ...

It has been 40 years since scientists revealed the shocking discovery of a large hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, a ...

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds that ...

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