If you think the Australian summer sun feels harsher than a summer in the Northern Hemisphere, you're not wrong. But why that ...

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most ...

When we marvel at the wonders of nature – like the sweet aroma of spring roses, the melodies of songbirds, or the brilliant colors of autumn leaves – there’s an unsung hero working quietly behind the ...

it rips apart the ozone molecule, leaving the layer thinner than before. In 1974, two scientists from the University of California called Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland discovered the threat ...

After the British scientists published their ... and it is not clear whether the ozone layer of the future will look like the ozone layer we had in the past. It will take generations before we know ...

The crisis led to the Montreal Protocol, a landmark global agreement that has put the ozone layer on the path to recovery. But the Protocol also has the potential to do something else: slow climate ...

The ozone layer measures around 15 to 30 kilometres (9.3 to 18.6 miles) above Earth's surface. It acts as a protectant and absorbs some of the sun's damaging UV rays.

The ozone layer is a precious thing ... There was a small initial bump to ozone levels after the wildfires, suspected to be due to similar reactions that create ozone pollution at ground level.

Equally, the healing of the ozone layer is by no means a done deal, said Al Tompkins on Poynter, and is dependent on us not doing “anything dumb”. After the UN released a similarly positive ...

The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer - and how the world came together to fix it. The scientists and politicians who persuaded Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to take action ...

The stratospheric ozone layer has undergone severe depletion as ... ozone concentration in northern mid-latitudes. In the 1970s, before chlorine and bromine became the focus of the ozone debate ...