A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ...

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Holes in the ozone layer formed not just over Antarctica—as they currently do each spring—but over the Arctic, too. By 2040, the ultraviolet (UV) index, the measure of the sunburn-causing radiation ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...

China has effectively halted the rise of ozone pollution and stabilized its concentration levels as air quality continues to ...

Harmful ODSs can carve a hole in the ozone layer, allowing UV rays to directly hit the Earth. Long-term exposure to UV radiation threatens human life - causing skin cancer, eye diseases and other ...

When the ozone layer is compromised, its ability to absorb radiation weakens, allowing more UV rays than usual to permeate the atmosphere’s innermost layers. This is known to contribute to ...

We’re quite lucky that we live on Earth. We’re in what’s known as the Goldilocks Zone, the habitable part of the Solar System that has just the right conditions for water to form, and for ...

which led to the formation of the ozone hole and exposure of the Earth's surface to unhealthy levels of ultraviolet radiation. But chlorine can also promote ozone formation in the right chemical ...

And it's not because of the hole in the ozone layer. The main reason for our high UV is because, during the Southern Hemisphere summer, our planet is closer to the source of the radiation ...

Ozone gas is a form of oxygen, a colorless gas consisting of three oxygen atoms. In the upper atmosphere, a layer of this gas protects the Earth from the sun’s UV radiation. So far, there has ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover from human-made damage following the near total phasing out of ozone-depleting substances, according to a UN-backed report.