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

Earth's ozone layer is vital to protecting all forms of ... adding that with these atoms, the ozone "can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created." Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs ...

The hole in the ozone layer was discovered 40 years ago ... the Environmental Protection Agency says in an online report. Ozone can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created, the ...

Scientists expect the ozone layer to start looking more like its ... that balance is thrown off — causing more ozone to be destroyed than created. Some of the worst offenders are ...

scientists have found that a supernova explosion billions of light years away was so powerful that it "temporarily destroyed" some of the Earth's ozone layer in 2022. According to the New York ...

Published in Nature, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina's research linked CFCs to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer. Initially utilized for their stability and nontoxic properties, CFCs were ...

Holes in the ozone layer formed not just over Antarctica—as they currently ... In 1979, when scientists were just beginning to understand that ozone could be destroyed, the hole over Antarctica was ...

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.

The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction event, say scientists. Around 250 million years ago, life on our planet was almost entirely wiped out during an event that has ...

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen ... Protection Agency says in an online report. Ozone can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created, the EPA said.

It has long been suspected that the ozone layer high in the atmosphere that protects life from ultraviolet light was largely destroyed during the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period ...