They were once abundant, in our hairsprays, bug sprays, and refrigerators. And then scientists figured out these substances ripped a hole in the ozone layer, leading to a 1987 plan to phase them out ...

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 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 global oceans are gearing up to spray all that 1980s hair spray back in our faces. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the aerosol chemicals that tore a hole in Earth's protective ozone layer within years ...

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 ...

For organisms living on the earth, ultraviolet rays are fundamentally harmful. Ultraviolet rays are a kind of electromagnetic waves with high energy. When strong ultraviolet rays hit the living body, ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In the 1980s, the world came together to ban CFCs, commonly used chemicals that were destroying the atmosphere’s ozone ...

Spring 2060. In dark glasses, a wide sunhat and with what little exposed skin left caked in sun cream, a child stares at the woodland across from their house. It looks scraggly and stunted, and with ...

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 ...

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 ...