Lake City is in the top ten for worst ozone pollution in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association.

Several U.S. cities are experiencing heightened air pollution levels on Wednesday, including parts of Chicago.

Humans have been depleting the ozone layer with chemical products. The unintentional experiment started in the late 1920s, when Thomas Midgley and other industrial chemists began to produce ...

A new report from the American Lung Association notes a drastic decline in air quality and raises health alarms. Climate ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an Ozone Action Day, also known as an Air Quality Alert, for the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Thursday. Air Quality Alerts are also in effect in ...

Louisville continues to struggle with poor air quality, according to a new report, as federal support is eroded.

The LA area is once again the worst for ozone in the U.S., a pollutant impacting millions more people nationwide, the ...

After news that Louisville failed a national ranking for high rates of particle and ozone pollution, a UofL researcher says ...

But when Haagy created synthetic smog in the lab, he unknowingly introduced another piece to the puzzle when oxidizing the VOCs: ozone. Oxidation is the process of combining a molecule with oxygen, ...

There, sulfate aerosols (from industrial pollutants as well as volcanoes) attract the water molecules like a sponge and, plumped up, provide a bed for chemical reactions that destroy ozone.

When chlorine is separated from the CFCs and reacts with ozone, it rips apart the ozone molecule, leaving the layer thinner than before. In 1974, two scientists from the University of California ...

Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet is available ... who persuaded President Reagan to phase out CFC chemical production; Professor Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize for identifying the ...