The "age of stratospheric air" measures the speed of the global transport circulation in the stratosphere, which is crucial ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

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Methyl bromide, which was widely used to treat soil on farm fields, has been banned worldwide for most uses since 2005 under a United Nations treaty that protects the Earth’s ozone layer ... has ...

imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer. Chlorine (which reacts with the aluminum) and nitrogen oxides also drive ozone depletion. "We're starting to see that we might be reversing some of ...

The modeling also indicates the field strength fell by around 90 percent, exposing the ozone layer to a bombardment of cosmic rays ... this is the period when use of ochre became widespread for cave ...

GENERAL NEWS - Although many critics call Katy Perry’s 11-minute space trip “planet destroying” and the headlines scream ...

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