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

Forty years ago this month, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What ...

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.

But our atmosphere is still vulnerable, and it is not clear whether the ozone layer of the future will look like the ozone layer we had in the past. It will take generations before we know how the ...

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, blocking potentially harmful ultraviolet energy from reaching our planet's surface. Without it, humans and animals could ...

In discovering this fall in atmospheric levels of HCFCs, I feel like we may be turning the final corner in the global effort to repair the ozone layer ... since 2021—and look to set to continue ...

“The Protocol saved our bacon a little bit.” The ozone layer acts like a shield reducing the amount of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation to safer levels. By the late 1970s scientists proved ...

The ozone layer remains a critical shield protecting life on Earth. While international efforts like the Montreal Protocol have curbed ozone depletion, the persistence of CFCs means recovery is ...

A new study from the University of Southern California published last week found that SpaceX's Starlink satellites could be depleting the Earth's ozone layer. Researchers estimated the potential ...