In the 1980s, scientists found that chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol cans and refrigerators were destroying stratospheric ozone.

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

Jonathan Shanklin, one of the ozone hole's original discoverers, using a Dobson spectrophotometer inside the Faraday Station ...

DENVER (AP) — Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing ... won't be fully fixed until 2066, the report said. Scientists and environmental advocates across the world ...

A promising new study suggests that Earth's ozone layer could be back on track to a full recovery after four years of worryingly large ozone holes.

A new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reveals a 17-year delay in the projected recovery of the ozone layer since ... of a 2006 report to 2066, as reported in ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA scientists, a hole that opens each year in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small this year ...