A decade ago, the international treaty that shapes what’s inside our cooling systems was amended to favour gases that ...

More ozone-depleting chemicals than previously thought are leaking out of old air conditioners and plastic foam, an international team of scientists reports (Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020 ...

The ozone layer was supposed to be one of the great environmental comeback stories. Under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, nearly every nation on Earth agreed to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the ...

Their power to dissolve the ozone layer shielding Earth from the Sun prompted a worldwide ban, but scientists on Monday revealed that some human-made chlorofluorocarbons have reached record levels, ...

EFFORTS to speed up the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons in China may be unwittingly encouraging illegal trade in the ozone-depleting chemicals. If this trade continues unabated, repair of the ...

Global emissions of a key contributor to the depletion of stratospheric ozone fell suddenly between 2018 and 2019, largely driven by reductions from within China, according to new analysis (Nature ...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Scientists including the MIT team have observed signs ...

The hole in Earth’s ozone layer — which made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s but which has been slowly healing since an international treaty banned the chemicals creating it — is growing bigger again ...

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...

Should you ever visit Antarctica, there are two very good reasons to cover your body from head to toe. One – intuitively – is ...