Nuclear winter refers to extreme global cooling that can occur after large-scale nuclear war. Firestorms from detonations loft hundreds of millions of tons of soot into the stratosphere, blocking ...

The same phenomenon that causes aurorae — the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth — causes mesospheric ozone layer depletion. This depletion could have ...

ROCHESTER — This summer, smoke from wildfires in Canada has impacted air quality in Minnesota. The fine particles carried from those fires on the wind can impact Minnesotans' health. But there is ...

While industrial products like chlorofluorocarbons are largely responsible for current ozone depletion, a NASA study finds that by the 2030s climate change may surpass chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as ...

If there is one piece of good news regarding our planet's future, it's our ozone layer and the ongoing shrinking of its hole. In an update on the latest status of the hole in Earth's ozone layer, the ...

What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts ...

Chemicals used to decaffeinate coffee, produce paint removers, meld plastics and purify antibiotics are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer over the tropics. Since the Montreal protocol ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European Space Agency reported that one of the largest holes in the ozone layer on record has been observed above the ...

In North America and Europe, emissions of ozone precursors such as nitrogen oxides (NO x) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) declined by half between 2000 and 2018. However, the ozone content of ...

The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size at 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers) on September 21, which ranks as the 12th largest since 1979, according to annual ...