This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In 1985, the British ...

The hole in the ozone layer hit home for Reagan, the President's former aides say in this exclusive clip from a new PBS ...

The hole in Earth’s ozone layer is opening early this year. While the hole has healed somewhat since the 80s and 90s, it still goes through a cycle of opening and closing every year. The preemptive ...

The stratospheric ozone layer protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet light, which damages DNA in plants and animals (including humans) and leads to sunburns and skin cancer. Prior to 1979, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it's been ...

The following article is courtesy of NASA: Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A recent United Nations report says recovery ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica has opened weeks earlier than usual and could grow to near-record size due to delayed effects of the massive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption last year. The ...

In a recent single-author study published in AIP Advances, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, discusses a large and year-round ozone hole presiding in the ...

Scientists recently discovered one of the largest holes ever observed in the ozone layer high above Antarctica. The gap in this critical protective layer in the atmosphere grew to more than 26,000,000 ...

The 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Haapai volcano tore a chunk out of the Earth's ozone layer due to the huge volumes of water vapor it poured into the atmosphere, according to a new study ...