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.

Antarctica's mid-spring ozone hole has grown in the last 20 years, a new study has found. The ozone layer over Antarctica has seen a 26 percent reduction since 2004, the new study published in Nature ...

The Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk to its smallest and shortest-lived size since 2019, offering encouraging evidence that ...

“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 ...

A new study finds that smoke particles in the stratosphere can trigger chemical reactions that erode the ozone layer -- and that smoke particles from Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new report has good news regarding our Earth’s ozone layer. The phasing out of harmful ozone-depleting chemicals has led to the partial recovery of our planet’s “ozone holes”, and is ...