NASA and NOAA recently announced good news concerning the ozone hole. What are lessons about science, policy and skepticism for other challenges?

WASHINGTON – NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth’s ...

On September 28, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size for 2024, covering a total area of roughly 20 million square kilometers. While this was large enough to engulf the entire continent ...

NASA and NOAA have announced encouraging news for Earth's climate: the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades. According to both agencies, international ...

In 2023, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on September 21, NASA and NOAA reported based on their annual satellite and balloon-based measurements. This hole spans 10 million square ...

With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this ...

A new study using NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data finds consistent evidence that Earth’s ozone layer is on the mend. A team led by Eun-Su Yang of the Georgia ...

Scientists have reported that the ozone hole over Earth's southern pole spans nearly 20 million square kilometers this year, almost three times the size of the contiguous United States, while ...

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