Unexpected leaks from industrial chemicals are slowing the ozone layer’s recovery. Cutting these emissions could help the ...

With the help of spy planes and B-57 bombers, Jim Anderson discovered the link between climate change and ozone loss. Ethan Hill “Bull!” said Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric scientist at MIT. Jim ...

DENVER — Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is once again hazing up the Front Range. Not only is it unpleasant to breathe, new research shows that smoke can erode the protective ozone layer. Take for ...

The ozone layer was supposed to be one of the great environmental comeback stories. Under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, nearly ...

The world would be on track for a collapse of the ozone layer and an additional 2.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century if it hadn't agreed in the 1980s to ban CFCs, chemicals ...

The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?

IN 1985 SCIENTISTS discovered an area over Antarctica where the layer of stratospheric ozone, which protects Earth from ultraviolet radiation, had become dangerously thin. That chlorine from ...

Perhaps the best example of successfully managing a climate change “near-miss” is the 1989 Montreal Protocol that banned chlorofluorocarbons—which demonstrates the power of science and international ...

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DENVER — A scientist who helped lead a United Nations report on the Earth's protective ozone layer said on Tuesday that "we have solved this problem. On the other hand vigilance is required." David W.