Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens ...

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

Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary ...

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 ...

A study by scientists at NTU Singapore has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast ...

The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (PDEQ) has declared an Ozone Action Day for the Tucson metropolitan area.

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 ...

Floating to over twice the altitude of commercial airliners ... Officially titled the “Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer,” this crucial U.N. treaty bans the release of ...

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.