Nearly 30 years after the landmark Montreal Protocol went into effect to protect our planet's stratospheric ozone layer, there is finally evidence that the protective blanket that shields us from the ...

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There are two different kinds of ozone that we need to understand first. There is stratospheric ozone and tropospheric ozone. Stratospheric ozone is probably the kind that pops into your head when we ...

Cathy Clerbaux has received funding from CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France) and the European H2020 program (ERC-advanced IASI-FT) to finance her team's research work. On 9 January 2023, ...

Four decades ago, scientists sounded the alarm after discovering a growing 'hole' in the ozone above Antarctica. This ...

As the ozone layer recovers, it’s also intensifying global warming. Researchers predict that by 2050, ozone will rank just behind carbon dioxide as a driver of heating, offsetting many of the benefits ...

Standard methods of predicting air pollution don’t take atmospheric chlorine into account, but the chemical could be responsible for 10 percent or more of daily ozone production in local air, research ...

Most of us don’t think about ozone as we go about our daily lives. Yet, this pale blue gas plays a huge role in keeping our planet habitable. There’s a layer of it in Earth’s stratosphere, and it ...

As wildfires continue through the hot and dry months of summer to fall, their smoke isn’t just clouding the skies, it’s also playing a complex role in the atmospheric chemistry. It can change the ...