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 ...

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 ...

A study finds that ozone-destroying CFCs banned in the 1980s are back in use, but it's not clear where or why. Reading time 3 minutes Thirty years after countries agreed to ease up on the use of ...

Last October, prime news coverage focused once again on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a chemical substance suspected to cause an especially pernicious, imperceptible form of environmental degradation.

A new study reveals a hidden consequence of phasing out ozone-damaging chemicals. Replacements for CFCs are creating large ...

The world will warm more than expected due to future changes in ozone, which protects the Earth from harmful sun rays but also traps heat as it is a greenhouse gas. While banning ozone-destroying ...

"It is widespread, highly persistent, and levels are increasing." ...

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, ...

The concentrations of some ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere are increasing rapidly, scientists warn, despite the production of these chemicals having been banned globally ...

After a major setback in the 2010s, the most recent U.N. assessment says the Montreal Protocol has succeeded in safeguarding Earth's ozone layer. Reading time 3 minutes When it comes to the health of ...

Rogue emissions from China of ozone-depleting chemicals had threatened to delay recovery by a decade. But the emissions were stopped, according to a U.N.-backed report. By Henry Fountain The weakened ...