The ozone layer - which is on track for recovery - protects against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun Human action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just ...

much of the ozone layer will have recovered. However, the report predicts that the polar regions will take two decades longer to recover. In a world where we increasingly hear reports of climate ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover from human-made damage following the near total phasing out of ozone-depleting substances, according to a UN-backed report.

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most ...

A new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reveals a 17-year delay in the projected recovery of ...

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 ...

The ozone layer is a precious thing, helping protect the Earth from the harshest of the sun’s radiative output. If anything were to damage this layer, we’d all feel the results in a very short ...

Substances used for air conditioning in almost all new cars are building up in the environment and may pose a threat to human health, researchers say. These "ozone friendly" chemicals have been ...

The extreme thinning of the Ozone layer threatened to bring on a global crisis from destroying plants and ecosystems to sky-high skin cancer rates. So, what happened? National Corporate funding ...

“The ozone layer has diminished more than 50% from its normal values and the UV intensity index has jumped from four to ten, according to the 16 October reading when the hole reached the 51 ...

It has now been almost four decades since scientists discovered the growing hole in Earth's ozone layer. But climate ...