Re-entries of SpaceX Starlink satellites are causing environmental concerns by releasing aluminium oxide, which could harm the ozone layer. Scientists ...

Scientists urge tech solutions to curb falling satellites' impact—causing storms, crop risks, ozone damage, and higher ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, the ozone layer was devastated by a group of chemicals known as CFCs that were widely used in fridges, spray cans and cleaning products. The 1987 Montreal protocol phased ...

Since the election, there's been a lot of consternation in the Democratic Party (and outside of it) about the best way to respond to the Trump administration's assault on U.S. institutions. Democrats ...

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 ...

Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, who first demonstrated that the ozone layer could be destroyed by chemical pollutants, passes away at age 84. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

When CFCs undergo photolysis ... Evolution of the iodine cycle and the late stabilization of the Earth's ozone layer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).

When he's not covering science and tech, Andrew is hard at work trying to become the first Pulitzer Prize winner for cat-related journalism. He lives in San Francisco, where he keeps an up-to-date ...

The use of these chemicals is controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the Montreal Protocol). There are other ozone depleting substances, but their ozone ...