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.

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 ...

CO 2 (carbon dioxide) and CFC (chlorofluorocarbon, a potent synthetic greenhouse gas responsible for the ozone hole) measurements began in 1976 and later extended to cover all major greenhouse gases.