Ozone pollution isn’t just a summer story anymore. In parts of northern China, high ozone levels are now appearing during ...

The ozone layer shields life on Earth. We’ll soon lose a key way to monitor its health. NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT near the end of missions to monitor ozone-depleting substances ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

The hole in the ozone layer that surrounds the Earth's atmosphere reached the 12th-largest single-day size on record on Sept. 21, 2023, despite improving overall, according to the NOAA.

Indeed, though the Antarctic ozone hole shows signs of recovery, the healing process is very slow. CFCs have atmospheric lifetimes of more than 50 years, so even without further emissions, a full ...

The recovery of the ozone layer — which sits miles above the Earth and protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation — has long been celebrated as one of the world’s greatest environmental ...

In this image, from September 2006, the Antarctic ozone hole was equal to the record single-day largest area of 11.4 million square miles (29.5 million square kilometres), reached on Sept. 9, 2000.

A new study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is ...

This year’s ozone hole, which peaked on Oct. 5, was the biggest recorded since 2015. But scientists aren’t too concerned. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now ...

When ozone science was in its infancy, not long after scientists Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina demonstrated in 1974 that CFC damaged the ozone, but before the extent of the damage was known, U ...

Science; World; Ozone hole grows this year, but still shrinking in general . Oct. 13, 2022 at 10:27 am Updated Oct. 18, 2022 at 1:33 am . By . SETH BORENSTEIN. The Associated Press.