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 ...

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.

It says that, if current policies are maintained, the ozone layer will be restored to 1980 values - before the ozone hole appeared - at different points in different places: ...

In this image, from September 2006, the Antarctic ozone hole was equal to the record single-day largest area of 11.4 million square miles (29.5 million square kilometres), reached on Sept. 9, 2000.

Complex impact of large wildfires on ozone layer dynamics Huge smoke-charged vortex doubles aerosol burden in the middle stratosphere and buffers ozone depletion Date: July 12, 2024 Source: ...

The hole in the ozone layer this year widened to among the largest on record, a sign that its recovery will be halting and slow, according to data from Copernicus, the EU observation programme ...