An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Earth's atmosphere ...

The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

Chemicals brought in to help protect our ozone layer have had the unintended consequences of spreading vast quantities of a ...

The world would be on track for a collapse of the ozone layer and an additional 2.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century if it hadn't agreed in the 1980s to ban CFCs, chemicals ...

Chemicals used in refrigeration break down in the atmosphere to produce trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent pollutant that ...

In the 1980s, the world came together to ban CFCs, commonly used chemicals that were destroying the atmosphere’s ozone layer. “The disaster was in terms of food. Crops that couldn’t be grown,” Paul ...

Explore the pivotal history of ozone layer depletion, from the groundbreaking 1974 research of Mario Molina and Sherwood ...

“In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or ...

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...

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