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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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The ozone layer is important for life on Earth because it absorbs most of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. It was in 1985 when a hole in the ozone was found over Antarctica, a ...

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 ...

If current trends hold, the ozone hole could shrink back to its size in the 1980s, according to the World Meteorological ...

The burgeoning space industry may be posing a significant threat to our planet’s protective ozone layer. Recent studies have ...

T here's good news for the ozone layer. NOAA's annual analysis of the ozone layer this year showed that levels of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere had dropped to numbers considered a ...

Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference, the scientists who conducted the study ...

Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the impacts of ozone-destroying substances that threaten the recovery of the ozone layer. Researchers have developed a new method for assessing ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world's ozone layer is on "the road to long-term recovery" despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday ...