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 ...

(NEW YORK) — When the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered in 1985, Paul A. Newman was shaken as a scientist. “I lost a lot of sleep back then because we didn’t really know what was going on ...

Sunset on a summer's day. — Image by © Tim Sandle. Sunset on a summer's day. — Image by © Tim Sandle. September 16 th is World Ozone Day, a celebration of the ...

“In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or ...

What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts ...

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” might significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer that shields life ...

The ozone layer is a stratospheric region characterized by elevated concentrations of ozone (O₃), typically peaking between 15 and 35 km altitude, where photochemical equilibrium between ozone ...

The 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Haapai volcano tore a chunk out of the Earth's ozone layer due to the huge volumes of water vapor it poured into the atmosphere, according to a new study ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows that rocket launches and satellite reentries are depositing pollutants directly into the stratosphere, where they threaten to slow the recovery of ...

A team of Drexel University engineering students are traveling to Texas this week to launch a high-altitude balloon during the October 14 solar eclipse. Their goal is to study the rapid changes in ...