The findings are in disagreement with widely accepted assessments of the ozone layer’s status, including a recent UN-backed study that showed it would return to 1980s levels as soon as 2040.

An international agreement to ban ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to rebuild the planet’s protective layer and shield humans from harmful solar rays, according to UN-backed scientists.

The healing ozone layer offers hope for the fight against climate change. But only to an extent. Because curbing greenhouse gas emissions is a much more encompassing task, requiring us to wholly ...

Thanks to over three decades worth of work by countries around the world in keeping ozone-damaging chemicals out of the atmosphere, Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover.. According to the ...

MOLINE, Ill. — You've likely heard about the ozone layer at some point or another. But, did you know that there are two types of ozone? Let's dive in! Ozone is formed when you pair three oxygen ...

The hole in the ozone layer became the great environmental cause of the 1980s — mentioned in songs by Neil Young, Lou Reed, Elton John and Public Enemy — and led to the Montreal Protocol, ... These ...

The rapid growth of rocket launches worldwide could delay the much-needed recovery of Earth’s ozone layer, according to a ...

Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is at the seventh smallest size since harmful chemicals called CFCs were banned in 1992. advertisement. Daily Mail.

Ozone, or O3, occurs in two forms in the atmosphere: what scientists call “good ozone” in the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere that sits 6 to 31 miles above the surface, and “bad ...

When the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered in 1985, Paul A. Newman was shaken as a scientist. "I lost a lot of sleep back then because we didn't really know what was going on and then ...