After decades of concern and cautious optimism, scientists have now confirmed with high statistical confidence that the ...

After much promise and some doubt, it’s confirmed: the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic is recovering thanks to the ...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ...

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was discovered in the 1980s. It begins to form each year in August and reached its maximum size late September or early October, before closing from mid ...

Thanks to the global reduction in ozone-depleting substances, some of us may see the Antarctic ozone layer hole disappear in ...

However experts believe the hole in the ozone is not likely to increase warming on the surface of Antarctica. “It's not a concern for climate change,” said Zehner.

It’s basically our planet’s natural sunscreen. And it had grown extremely thin over Antarctica. So the ozone hole, as it became known, was absorbing less UV light than normal. In fact ...

Image caption, A diagram of the ozone layer ‘hole’ above Antarctica. The danger of CFCs was reiterated in 1985 by a group of Cambridge scientists. They found what was often called a ‘hole ...

It's not often that scientists get to conduct experiments that seem like they come out of a science fiction novel or a video game. Yet, that is what some researchers at NASA did a few years ago.

Each year, the layer of ozone in the atmosphere above Antarctica becomes thinner. This "hole" is a natural phenomenon that forms around August and "closes" by December. In the 1970s, scientists ...