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 ...

Video footage of the the ozone hole opening above Antarctica during a simulation This year's hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is one of the biggest ever seen, satellite data shows. Experts ...

“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 largest ozone hole to ever open up over the Arctic has now closed, media outlets report. The demise of a long-lived and exceptionally strong polar vortex — a mass of swirling low pressure, cold ...

In a promising update, scientists have revealed that the ozone hole is healing – and it could soon close up for good. The Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) found that the hole – which ...