NASA and NOAA recently announced good news concerning the ozone hole. What are lessons about science, policy and skepticism for other challenges?

The same phenomenon that causes aurorae — the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth — causes mesospheric ozone layer depletion. This depletion could have ...

What is the Ozone Layer? The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere, located between 19 and 30 km above ...

Sometimes, global problems seem to simply disappear, leading people to believe that the problem might not have been as significant as initially reported. However, the reality might be that somebody ...

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 ...

In a revelation highlighting the fragile balance of our planet's atmosphere, scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between massive wildfire events and the chemistry of the ozone layer. Using ...

A groundbreaking study led by scientists at MIT has confirmed that the Antarctic ozone layer is on a steady path to recovery, ...

What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts ...

A new study reveals that ozone transported from the upper atmosphere is a widespread and previously underrecognized source of ...

“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 ...

During summers in Denver, electronic billboards on the side of the highway often let people know that the state health department has declared an ozone action alert day. But what that means isn’t ...