Photo by NASA via AP / AP WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said.

The ozone layer is between 15 to 40 kilometres away from the Earth’s surface, which is perhaps a closer distance than what some may have initially guessed. This close proximity means that the ...

DENVER (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

Satellite data gathered by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) revealed unusual behaviour in the ozone layer as early as August. False-color view of total ozone over the Antarctic ...

The four-yearly review of the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 ban on man-made gases that damage the fragile high-altitude ozone layer, found long-term decreases in the atmospheric abundance of ...

As of September 13, the ozone hole was 18.48 million square kilometres (7.13 million square miles) smaller than the same time in recent years. While scientists caution that this change is largely ...

After discovering the growing hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica in the 1980’s, additional research led to the knowledge that man-made chemicals, chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) were the ...

The ozone is something that we’ve long struggled not to damage, and in the past, we’ve even had to contend with holes in the ozone caused by humanity’s activities – like burning fossil fuels.

The result is a rush of ozone destruction, and the hole grows through September and reaches its peak in October. It can be half the size of the lower 48 U.S. states.

"The ozone layer, of course, has been in decline for some years," said Thomas Duck, an atmospheric scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax. "But the sense of the scientific community is that ...