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 ...

NASA and NOAA have announced encouraging news for Earth's climate: the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades. According to both agencies, international ...

The ozone layer is often seen as a success story for human action to correct a climate emergency – but unfortunately we may be undoing our own hard work. A new study has shown that smoke from ...

WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said. The ozone layer had been thinning since the late ...

The ozone hole doesn’t just affect the health of human, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. It also affects environmental chemical processes at the South Pole. This has been demonstrated by an ...

Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is considered to be a health risk, causing skin and eye damage, alongside effects on the immune system comment that ultimately compromise health. The primary ...

Paleobotanists put dwarf, bonsai pine trees in growth chambers and subjected them to up to 13 times the UV-B radiation Earth experiences today, simulating conditions that likely existed 252 million ...

Climate change could produce an ozone hole over the U.S. similar to the one observed over Antarctica, above, in 2006. Image via NASA For the past 25 years, it seemed that we’d pretty much solved the ...