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

The fierce wildfires we’ve seen so much of in recent years are also having a negative effect. Let’s take a look at why the ozone layer matters, and how it’s being affected by these wildfires.

Just a few decades ago, the sky above Antarctica became a symbol of environmental crisis. Scientists had discovered a massive ...

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

In another demonstration of the effects of a world without an ozone layer, Newman's group exposed a basil plant to intense UV radiation. In a lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, they set up a ...

In 1985, scientists discovered a "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica that opened ... leading to skin cancer and other ...

The stratospheric ozone layer has undergone severe depletion as ... and subsequent atmospheric effects should be further explored in more detailed models. For now, Ravishankara and colleagues ...

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 ...

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 ...

The effect it had was astounding ... 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 ...

The ozone layer shields the Earth from most of the ... Furthermore, they consider that “what happened should not have any effect on the northern summer and neither does it allow us to say ...