A growing global desire to venture into deep space could pose a new threat to life back on Earth – 40 years after the alarm ...

One chlorine atom can destroy over 100,000 ozone molecules before it is removed from the stratosphere, destroying ozone more quickly than it is naturally created, according to a federal agency. This ...

§ Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States ∥ Global Health Institute and the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke ...

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), seemingly harmless compounds, are the real culprits, as experts claimed that they could damage ...

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

A modeling study shows that global warming will make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Ground-level ozone differs from the stratospheric ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful UV radiation. It is a respiratory irritant that is harmful to the health of humans, animals ...

† State Key Joint Laboratory for Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China ‡ Department of ...

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 ...

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

It has been 40 years since scientists revealed the shocking discovery of a large hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, a finding that sparked urgent global action to protect the planet’s fragile ...