The ozone layer is on track to fully recover from its depletion within the next four decades, a panel of scientists gathered by the United Nations said on Monday. In an assessment conducted every four ...

The same phenomenon that causes aurorae — the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth — causes mesospheric ozone layer depletion. This depletion could have ...

NASA and NOAA recently announced good news concerning the ozone hole. What are lessons about science, policy and skepticism ...

To a climate skeptic who thinks the story from the '90s about the big hole in the ozone layer that was "going to kill us" might itself have some holes in it and wants to know what happened to the ...

Laura Revell receives New Zealand government funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi (Marsden fund and Rutherford Discovery Fellowships) and Ministry for the Environment. She is a member of the UN ...

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” might significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer that shields life ...

From late 2019 until the start of 2020, the Australian‘ Black Summer’ bushfires damaged the Earth's ozone layer by burning millions of tons of soot and ash into the air, according to a new study. The ...

An ozone sonde is released from the Balloon Inflation Facility at the South Pole Station earlier this year. Ozone depletion above Antarctica was much less this austral spring due to warmer ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica is healing. The latest update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows the ozone layer remains on track to fully recover within this century, all thanks to ...

The recovery of the ozone layer — which sits miles above the Earth and protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation — has been celebrated as one of the world’s greatest environmental achievements.

The ozone layer is healing, and it’s a symbol of hope around the power of human efforts. It sometimes feels like the only options we have in terms of news are “bad” or “worse.” But if you’re looking ...