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

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

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

The phaseout of CFCs under the Montreal Protocol successfully protected the ozone layer but led to substitute chemicals with unforeseen consequences. HCFCs and HFCs break down into trifluoroacetic ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The research team, led by Professors Yongchun Liu from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, along with Professor Jiannong Quan from the Chinese Meteorological Administration, and Professor ...