Scientists stated that worldwide ozone layer protection measures have been a major achievement, showing that harmful gases are dropping faster than projected. Experts, according to Science Alert, ...

Local pollution cuts haven’t lowered ozone because transported pollution and global emissions now dominate exposure.

After a major setback in the 2010s, the most recent U.N. assessment says the Montreal Protocol has succeeded in safeguarding Earth's ozone layer. Reading time 3 minutes When it comes to the health of ...

The ozone layer, a thin shield of gas, is seen from space. (NASA) While the majority of climate news and developments paint a grim picture, an announcement from the United Nations yesterday proves ...

The ozone layer, Earth's invisible shield against harmful ultraviolet radiation, sits quietly in the stratosphere between roughly 15 and 35 kilometers above our heads. For decades, scientists watched ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are part of a new study that reveals significant progress in the drive to reduce levels of chemicals that destroy Earth’s ozone layer, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A recent United Nations report says recovery ...

We did it. Solid science and effective activism followed by decisive action from governments around the world to phase out chlorofluorocarbons has prevented a looming environmental catastrophe that ...

DENVER — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A quadrennial ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the world's governments came together in a rare show of cooperation to rid Earth's atmosphere of certain ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). Used mainly in air conditioning and ...

The annual hole in Earth's ozone layer closed at the beginning of this month, scientists recently announced. This year's hole in the layer was smaller in 2024 than we’ve seen in any other year this ...