And eventually, the ozone hole should stay shut for good. Peidong Wang, who also worked on the study, said their findings ...

The recovery of the ozone layer — which sits miles above the Earth and protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation — has long been celebrated as one of the world’s greatest environmental ...

“The ozone hole is getting better, and it will get better,” says Johnson. It’s not every day a scientific horror story has a happy ending. NASA | Big Ozone Holes Headed For Extinction By 2040.

And eventually, the ozone hole should stay shut for good. "By something like 2035, we might see a year when there's no ozone hole depletion at all in the Antarctic.

Humanity healed the ozone hole. Can we do the same for climate change? It's been 35 years since the Montreal Protocol helped heal a hole in the ozone.

The ozone hole was first observed in the early 1980s and reached its largest extent in 2006, according to NASA. This year's ozone hole, which peaked on Oct. 5, was the biggest recorded since 2015.

While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release ...

The largest the hole became this year was about 7.6 million square miles wide, about two and a half times the size of the United States, in September. But it was still 1.3 million square miles ...

Indeed, though the Antarctic ozone hole shows signs of recovery, the healing process is very slow. CFCs have atmospheric lifetimes of more than 50 years, so even without further emissions, a full ...

Why the ozone hole is on track to be healed by mid-century. New UN data shows that 99 percent of ozone-destroying chemicals have been phased out, underscoring a hopeful environmental story.

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