As a result of the longer-lasting hole, harmful ultraviolet radiation is reaching Earth during a time when young penguins and ...

Atmospheric Scientists Reveal Much of Houston's Ozone Exceedance Due to Air Flows from the North Sep. 11 ... Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 ...

A hole in the ozone layer - the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere - now lingers over the frozen continent for more of the year. A major cause of ozone loss is believed to be the ...

But the sudden switch-up has caused a record-breaking "ozone spike" above the North Pole. Related ... ozone spike — the ...

Total column ozone (TCO) in the Antarctic continues to recover, notwithstanding substantial interannual variability in the size, strength, and longevity of the ozone hole. Outside of the Antarctic ...

If the stratospheric weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected to reach a size of about 8.9 to 9.3 million square miles, about the surface area of North America.

The European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said that the so-called ozone hole, which appears every year during the Southern Hemisphere spring, has grown considerably in the ...

Belching factory smokestacks and black smoke pouring from muscle-car tailpipes made the air unsafe to breathe in parts of the United States before legislation passed in the 1960s and the following ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Seal pups and fledgling penguins could be at increased risk of sunburn and skin cancers as the ozone layer hole above Antarctica ...

For Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun's damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in the ...