The Piedmont Triad is under a Code Orange Air Quality Alert due to extreme heat, ozone, and Canadian wildfire smoke, posing ...

In 1985, scientists “accidentally” discovered a yawning hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. Initial research suggested the problem had emerged as recently as the late 1970s, but a new analysis ...

Anthropogenic influence on the ozone layer was detectable by the late 1950s, primarily due to carbon tetrachloride, ...

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

The ozone layer there was 60 to 70 percent thinner than usual. A 10 percent drop in ozone thickness allows 10 percent more UV sunlight to reach the earth’s surface; 10 percent more UV will lead to a ...

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DENVER — Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is once again hazing up the Front Range. Not only is it unpleasant to breathe, new research shows that smoke can erode the protective ozone layer. Take for ...

Two thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's ...

IN 1985 SCIENTISTS discovered an area over Antarctica where the layer of stratospheric ozone, which protects Earth from ultraviolet radiation, had become dangerously thin. That chlorine from ...

A heat dome has settled over Michigan, driving up ground-level ozone and concerns about the health effects for all, not just the most vulnerable.

“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 ...