For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...

Unlike the hole that developed over the Arctic, the Antarctic ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere is typically caused by chemicals such as chlorine and bromine migrating into the stratosphere. This ...

The mysterious holes popping out of nowhere were actually little wounds caused by explosions triggered by a gas trapped below.

In 1985, scientists discovered something quite appalling above Antarctica: the ozone layer formed a hole in itself, letting in harmful radiation from the sun. Now, 40 years later, according to a ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica is healing ... the ozone layer is expected to fully recover by around 2066 over the Antarctic, by 2045 over the Arctic, and by 2040 for the rest of the world. The ...

In western Siberia, a rare kind of gas explosion is carving deep, near vertical craters in the tundra. Some of these massive ...

Found between about nine and 19 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer is a broad region of the stratosphere where the ...

Scientists say a giant ozone hole, one of the largest ever recorded, has closed just weeks after it formed over the Arctic. And while pollution levels are down worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic, ...

The Earth's protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover by mid-century, according to a UN report released Tuesday. The bulletin hailed the success of international agreements like the Montreal ...

Antarctic sea ice has recorded its third-smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals.