Adopted 35 years ago, the Montreal Protocol remains a groundbreaking environmental agreement, credited with saving millions ...

The stratospheric ozone layer has undergone severe depletion as a result of anthropogenic ... Nitrous oxide behaves in a similar way to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): it is very stable in the lower ...

Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth's southern ...

In 2024, the ozone hole over the Antarctic showed a notable reduction in size, ranking as the seventh smallest since monitoring began post-Montreal Protocol. This improvement is credited to ongoing ...

CFCs are chlorofluorocarbons linked to ozone depletion. HFC-134a, favored by many fleet owners and operators, is a hydrofluorocarbon which contains no chlorine atom; it therefore has zero ...

In 2024, the Antarctic ozone hole reached a smaller size compared to other years, with full recovery projected by 2066.

The NOAA on October 30, released its findings that the Antarctic ozone hole that opens up annually over Antarctica is now ...

CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons ... such as seals and penguins are at greater risk of getting sunburnt due to ozone depletion. According to Bryan Johnson, NOAA research chemist, 225 Dobson units ...

UNEP Deputy Executive Director Elizabeth Mrema highlights that international environmental lawmaking is advancing, with ...

During the fall of 2024, NOAA estimated the hole in the ozone layer above Earth’s South Pole was the seventh smallest since monitoring began in 1992. Scientists attributed some of the improvement to a ...

During the peak of ozone depletion season from 7 September through 13 October ... The improvement is due to a combination of continuing declines in harmful chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) chemicals, along ...

The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has been getting deeper in austral mid-spring over the last two decades, according to New Zealand researchers working with scientists from Otago University ...