The NOAA and NASA agencies have reported that the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is this year the fifth smallest since 1992. At its peak, it covered an average of 18.71 million ...

The ozone layer is on track to fully recover from its depletion within the next four decades, a panel of scientists gathered by the United Nations said on Monday. In an assessment conducted every four ...

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 ...

The closing of this year's ozone hole over the Antarctic continues the positive trend of smaller gaps in Earth's ozone layer ...

The scientists at EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails a ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in the hole’s size and duration.

Over the last month, a new hole in the ozone layer has started to form over the Arctic. The ozone layer over the North Pole has been depleted plenty of times in the past. But this time around, extreme ...

In a new UN report, specialists revealed that the ozone layer is officially back on track to be restored to full strength in decades. The ozone layer is the thin part of the Earth’s atmosphere which ...

A little over three decades now, world communities banded together for a historic deal to keep a hole from the ozone layer from growing. This international treaty, known as the Montreal Protocol, ...

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Editor's note: Curbing damage to Earth's protective ozone layer is widely viewed as one of the most important successes of the modern environmental era. Earlier this year, however, a study reported ...

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 ...