Just a few decades ago, the sky above Antarctica became a symbol of environmental crisis. Scientists had discovered a massive ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder if humanity is truly capable of reversing the damage we’ve done to our planet? The story of ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

2024 — A new study has revealed significant progress in the drive to reduce levels in the atmosphere of chemicals that destroy Earth's ozone layer, confirming the success of historic regulations ...

From the decades he had spent studying the depletion of the earth’s ozone layer—the thin gauze of molecules in the stratosphere that blocks most incoming ultraviolet radiation—Anderson knew ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (the ozone ...

Although global warming and ozone depletion are caused by different gases ... Carlowicz, M.; Lindsey, R. Earth Observatory: The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer, Earth Observatory, ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully ... The climate change problem is “more complex and more pressing” than ozone depletion, wrote Bagenstose, and “drives a need to learn ...

Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of ...

Fifty-six years ago, a disaster off the coast of Santa Barbara sparked the creation of Earth Day, a movement that continues to ...