Four decades ago, scientists sounded the alarm after discovering a growing 'hole' in the ozone above Antarctica. This ...

Earth Observatory: The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer, Earth Observatory, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, May 13, 2009: Mike Carlowicz is a science writer from Massachusetts and the ...

The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere, located between 19 and 30 km above the surface. It plays a ...

The ozone layer is a thin shield of gas in the Earth’s atmosphere that protects the planet, absorbing the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays and helping to preserve all life on the planet.

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover from ... Exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the Sun “causes cancer and eye damage in humans” and“ also damages ...

The ozone layer is a precious thing, helping protect the Earth from the harshest of the sun’s radiative output. If anything were to damage this layer, we’d all feel the results in a very short ...

Nearly 30 years after the landmark Montreal Protocol went into effect to protect our planet's stratospheric ozone layer, there is finally ... that shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet ...

We’re quite lucky that we live on Earth. We’re in what’s known as the Goldilocks Zone, the habitable part of the Solar System that has just the right conditions for water to form, and for ...

Ozone layer depletion, is simply the wearing out ... Ultra violet radiation from the sun breaks up these CFCs. The breaking up action releases Chlorine atoms. Chlorine atoms react with Ozone ...

But the energy emanating from the sun would be too much for life on Earth to thrive were it not for the ozone layer. This stratospheric layer shields Earth from most of the sun’s harmful ...

The ozone layer 11 to 40 kilometers above Earth’s surface filters out most of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation, which can cause skin cancer and cataracts. From the mid-1970s, chemicals called ...