They now predict that the ozone layer may recover fully by 2066. By September this year, the ozone hole (pictured in blue) ...

The ozone layer is now on track to be restored to 1980s levels over much of the world by 2040, over the Arctic by 2045 and the Antarctic by 2066.

The ozone layer is now on track to be restored to 1980s levels over much of the world by 2040, over the Arctic by 2045 and the Antarctic by 2066.

In 2021, that hole was larger than usual – bigger than the size of Antarctica itself, but now NOAA says that the Antarctic ozone layer is projected to recover "sometime around 2070." ...

NOAA announces ozone layer now 50% healed The ozone layer is now halfway back to pre-1980 levels after a 34-year worldwide chemical ban. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

Ozone, or O3, occurs in two forms in the atmosphere: what scientists call “good ozone” in the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere that sits 6 to 31 miles above the surface, and “bad ...

Now there appears to be another, even more sprawling area of ozone layer depletion over the tropics, which covers roughly half the Earth's surface area and where about half the world's population ...

Antarctic wildlife is being sunburnt: Hole in the ozone layer now lingers over the continent for more of the year - leaving seals and penguins exposed to dangerous levels of UV, study warns.

Scientists now say the ozone layer hole is back to 'business as usual' following four years of very large holes. This has raised hopes of a full recovery by the year 2066.

Now, an international research team has found that the effects of isolated proton auroras caused a nearly 250-mile-wide (400 kilometers) hole in the ozone layer, which gaped right below where an ...

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