Yet this trail-blazing treaty, conceived with the finding of the ozone hole, is a climate-diplomacy superhero. The book ...

Forty years ago this month, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What ...

Molina and Rowland’s study was validated in 1985, when a team of English scientists found a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica that was later linked to CFCs. The "hole" is actually an area ...

The sudden depletion raised global concerns ... Researchers quickly traced the cause to human-made ozone-depleting substances ...

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet energy from reaching our planet's surface ...

As CFCs degrade in the upper atmosphere ... Many researchers believed that ozone depletion would be a problem only on a time scale of centuries. There were some early worrying measurements ...

The 1985 discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole confirmed CFC-caused ozone depletion, and although bans on such chemicals helped slow ozone depletion, evidence suggesting ozone depletion has ...

This is significant as, previously, spring has been associated with ozone depletion when high CFC levels were coincident with large, cold, rotating low-pressure meteorological systems, known as ...

They found that the depletion of ozone and deepening of the hole were ... large ozone holes may not be caused just by CFCs,” Kessenich said. “So, while the Montreal Protocol has been ...