In just minutes, a celebration turned into one of the deadliest nightclub disasters in history. 162 lives lost, and every one of them preventable. This is the Ozone Disco fire.

Ozone pollution isn’t just a summer story anymore. In parts of northern China, high ozone levels are now appearing during winter—an alarming twist that defies decades of air quality science.

The Mid-America Regional Air Quality Program shares how citizens can protect themselves from pollution, as first ozone alert of the year is issued for Kansas City.

More information: Feng Hu et al, Mapping Regional Meteorological Processes to Ozone Variability in the North China Plain and the Yangtze River Delta, China, Environmental Science & Technology (2025).

The state has issued an air quality alert for Thursday, June 12, particularly because of high levels of ozone, which can be dangerous for vulnerable populations, including children, seniors and ...

More information: Laura E. Revell et al, Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41612-025-01098-6 ...

The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer. Several hundred rockets are launched globally each ...

The study indicated that ground-level ozone surpassed national safety standards throughout the 92-day summer period from March 1 to May 31, with breaches occurring on 83 days.

Ozone action days are declared for Sunday and Monday in Armstrong and Westmoreland counties, Monday also in Indiana County.

Now, as the ozone layer recovers thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, scientists say this damaging trend could be reversed. However, continued increases in greenhouse gases may reignite the ...

By the second week of June, the Dallas-Fort Worth region had seen six days in 2025 where the region’s ozone reached unhealthy levels. That number is down slightly from the seven Ozone Action Day ...

The disco backlash of the late 1970s kept the disco ball from spinning. | Blank Archives/Getty Images Disco’s demise was due in part to a trend that had expired but was hastened in some part by ...