The hole in the ozone layer hit home for Reagan, the President's former aides say in this exclusive clip from a new PBS ...

The ozone layer there was 60 to 70 percent thinner than usual. A 10 percent drop in ozone thickness allows 10 percent more UV sunlight to reach the earth’s surface; 10 percent more UV will lead to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new UN report says that the Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the ...

DENVER — A scientist who helped lead a United Nations report on the Earth's protective ozone layer said on Tuesday that "we have solved this problem. On the other hand vigilance is required." David W.

The world would be on track for a collapse of the ozone layer and an additional 2.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century if it hadn't agreed in the 1980s to ban CFCs, chemicals ...

Sometimes, global problems seem to simply disappear, leading people to believe that the problem might not have been as significant as initially reported. However, the reality might be that somebody ...

For a large part of the last two weeks, Steven Brown, an air quality chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has soared over Colorado’s Front Range in a slow-flying Twin ...

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DENVER — Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is once again hazing up the Front Range. Not only is it unpleasant to breathe, new research shows that smoke can erode the protective ozone layer. Take for ...

In one of the great environmental success stories of our time, scientists say that a 35-year-old agreement has resulted in the steady and promising recovery of the Earth's ozone layer, a critical ...

Earth's once-damaged ozone layer is on track for a full recovery, but the rapid rise in space launches could derail decades of progress. Reading time 4 minutes The rapidly rising number of space ...

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most significant ...