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 ...

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

A 3D rendering of the ozone hole evolution in 2025. Forty years after global policymakers began grappling with the crisis posed by a gaping hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica, the ...

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 ...

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

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

The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it's been since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA scientists.

It's been 40 years since groundbreaking research announced the discovery of a hole in the ozone layer, a revelation that launched a rapid and successful effort to ban chemicals in hairspray, deodorant ...

CNN — The Arctic's ozone layer developed a tear, which grew into a hole, and then a bigger hole. Now, it may be biggest hole the North Pole's ozone layer has ever incurred. This hole in the Arctic ...

The ozone layer will be fully recovered in decades, according to a new report. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 levels by around 2040 ...

Much like Earth, Venus has an ozone layer high in its atmosphere, according to new data received by the European Space Agency. The ozone was detected by instruments on the agency’s Venus Express ...