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.

The ozone hole over Antarctica is the seventh smallest it’s been since the early 1990s. Recovery began with the Montreal Protocol, which ended the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs ...

But the longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone layer is dominated by natural factors, not human CFC emissions.” Another year has passed, and that stubborn Ozone Hole over ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The ...

The Weatherhood forecast for Tuesday, December 3, is for a mix of sun and cloud in the qathet region with little chance of ...

“The 2024 Antarctic hole is smaller than ozone holes seen in the early 2000s,” said Paul Newman, leader of NASA’s ozone research team. The improvement is due to a combination of continuing reductions ...

Thirty-seven years later, there’s concrete evidence that the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking because of this unprecedented agreement. The substitute for CFCs that emerged in the ...

In the 1980s, when scientists detected a hole in the ozone layer, the world rallied to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons, which were being used in everything from refrigeration to packaging ...