In the 1980s, scientists found that chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol cans and refrigerators were destroying stratospheric ...

Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary component of smog, according to a new MIT study.

A study by scientists at NTU Singapore has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast ...

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet energy from reaching our planet's surface.

DENVER (AP) — Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing ... won't be fully fixed until 2066, the report said. Scientists and environmental advocates across the world ...

A promising new study suggests that Earth's ozone layer could be back on track to a full recovery after four years of worryingly large ozone holes.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA scientists, a hole that opens each year in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small this year ...