WASHINGTON — While most people are familiar with the ozone hole over the South Pole, few are aware of a similar destruction of the ozone layer over the North Pole. The Arctic ozone reached an all-time ...

WASHINGTON - The rate at which ozone is being destroyed in the upper stratosphere is slowing, and the levels of ozone-destroying chlorine in that layer of the atmosphere have peaked and are going down ...

The global oceans are gearing up to spray all that 1980s hair spray back in our faces. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the aerosol chemicals that tore a hole in Earth's protective ozone layer within years ...

A new paper quantifying small levels of iodine in Earth's stratosphere could help explain why some of the planet's protective ozone layer isn't healing as fast as expected. The paper posits a set of ...

PASADENA, Calif. – A new NASA study of Earth’s polar ozone layer reinforces scientists’ understanding of how human-produced chlorine chemicals involved in the destruction of ozone interact with each ...

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The ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned due to colder-than-normal temperatures, and "large scale losses" are likely if the cold conditions continue, a European research group reported. The ...

Water injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption may be causing ozone destruction. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Arctic clouds could make ozone depletion three times worse than predicted. You have full access to this article via your institution. The thinning of the ozone layer over the Arctic could be much ...

Atmospheric chemists have found that the smoke from Australia's 'Black Summer' wildfires set off chemical reactions in the stratosphere that contributed to the destruction of ozone. The study is the ...

While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release by ...