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: ...

The study found that after an all-out nuclear war, smoke would destroy the ozone layer over a 15-year period, with the ozone layer reducing by 75 percent at worst. Even after a regional nuclear ...

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: ...

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.

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 ...