This protective layer shields Earth from ... quickly traced the cause to human-made ozone-depleting substances (ODS), particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were widely used in ...

The ozone layer is on the mend, and it's thanks to human action. A new MIT-led study confirms - with 95% confidence - that ...

Humans have been depleting the ozone layer with chemical products. The unintentional experiment started in the late 1920s, when Thomas Midgley and other industrial chemists began to produce ...

It was the smoking gun proving that CFCs were chomping away at the ozone layer like so many high-altitude Pac-Men. It was Anderson’s most important contribution to science to date. And it was ...

The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer - and how the world came together ... who persuaded President Reagan to phase out CFC chemical production; Professor Mario Molina, who won ...

indicating a recovery possibly due to CFC reductions. But in October, when the hole is often largest, the ozone level in the middle stratospheric layer shrunk by 26% from 2004 to 2022, said the ...

The stratospheric ozone layer has undergone severe depletion ... Nitrous oxide behaves in a similar way to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): it is very stable in the lower atmosphere, where it has ...

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most ...