Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Published in Nature, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina's research linked CFCs to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer. Initially utilized for their stability and nontoxic properties, CFCs were ...

The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere ... Source:gml.noaa Studies show that ozone depletion has been ...

move into the holes on the other side of the junction (p-type layer). This creates an area around the junction, called the depletion zone, in which the electrons fill the holes (Fig. 1, closeup). When ...

The ozone layer is on the mend, and it's thanks to human action. A new MIT-led study confirms - with 95% confidence - that ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer - and how the world came together to fix it. The scientists and politicians who ...

Scientists first became aware of the depletion of the ozone layer in 1985, when British researchers in Antarctica were measuring the amount of ozone in the skies above. They found that ozone levels ...

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most ...

In 2018, NASA found the first direct proof that the ozone layer was recovering. Their research showed that between then and 2005, ozone depletion was reduced by 20%. If this is kept up ...