The ozone hole over Antarctica has reduced to its smallest size in six years. It shows that decades of international environmental effort are gradually restoring the Earth's protective ozone layer.

The Antarctic ozone hole closed early in 2025 after one of the shortest seasons in decades, reflecting long-term recovery of the ozone layer.

Launches have become an almost daily occurrence as companies and governments from around the world continue to build out ...

Learn more about the ozone hole, how it was created, how it was healed, and what message it offers about climate change.

Chemicals designed to protect the ozone layer are now flooding the planet with a persistent “forever chemical,” scientists report. The pollution is spreading globally, accumulating in rain, ice, and ...

Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a potentially toxic “forever chemical”, has more than tripled in the global environment in two decades due to refrigerants that are helping to close the hole in the ozone ...

The ozone layer is a stratospheric region characterized by elevated concentrations of ozone (O₃), typically peaking between 15 and 35 km altitude, where photochemical equilibrium between ozone ...

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Earth's atmosphere for the first time in historical measurements from 1951—20 years earlier ...

Best News of 2023: - Human life expectancy has doubled. - The Ocean Cleanup initiative is ongoing, addressing plastic pollution in oceans. - The world's largest solar facility has been established, ...

In the mid-1980s, scientists published a startling finding–a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That’s the protective shield that... The ozone layer is still healing…thanks to science In ...

In the mid-1980s, scientists published a startling finding–a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That's the protective shield that blocks large amounts of harmful UV radiation. And without ...