A new animation film and video game have been released to engage teenagers in the need to protect the Earth’s ozone layer. That is the thin part of the atmosphere which screens harmful ...

The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing its first sign of thickening after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study says.

It's been 40 years since groundbreaking research announced the discovery of a hole in the ozone layer, a revelation that launched a rapid and successful effort to ban chemicals in hairspray ...