There is much less ozone at the centre of the ozone hole compared to nearly two decades ago, according to new study which suggests some yet-unknown chemicals may be damaging the Earth’s protective ...

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 ...

The NOAA and NASA agencies have reported that the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is this year the fifth smallest ...

The ozone hole that forms yearly over Antarctica has grown for the third year in a row. At nearly 10 million square miles (26.4 million square kilometers), the ozone hole is the largest it's been ...

A groundbreaking study led by scientists at MIT has confirmed that the Antarctic ozone layer is on a steady path to recovery, thanks to global efforts by populations to phase out ozone-depleting ...

The scientists at EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails a ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in the hole’s size and duration.

The scope of the newly discovered hole in the ozone layer over Earth's tropics, revealed by the annual change in ozone levels and average annual temperatures. (Qing-Bin Lu) (CN) — As if we needed any ...

The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it's been since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA scientists.

In a recent single-author study published in AIP Advances, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, discusses a large and year-round ozone hole presiding in the ...

Scientists predicted that we'd see a huge ozone hole over the Antarctic in 2023. But it turns out their calculations were off. They thought that the 2022 Tonga-Hunga volcano eruption would've made ...

With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this ...