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

The ozone hole is a gap in the ozone layer - a layer ... suppress immune systems and also damage plants. It is produced in tropical latitudes and distributed around the globe.

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

23, 2024 — Powerful monsoon winds, strengthened by a warming climate, are lofting unexpectedly large quantities of ozone-depleting ... widened the ozone hole by 10 ...

Ozone holes swirled over both poles all year long, and most ozone disappeared from the tropics, too. The intensity of UV radiation ... particularly through a phenomenon that most of us know as "the ...

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually ...

KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Interim Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts ...

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 ...