WASHINGTON – NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth’s ...
NASA and NOAA have announced encouraging news for Earth's climate: the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades. According to both agencies, international ...
On September 28, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size for 2024, covering a total area of roughly 20 million square kilometers. While this was large enough to engulf the entire continent ...
Veerabhadran Ramanathan has won the Crafoord Prize, considered a precursor to the Nobel. Over decades, his climate research ...
The United States has spent about $100 billion eliminating ozone-destroying chemicals from air conditioners and refrigerators, by some estimates. Now, NASA is spending $12 billion to measure how ...
In 2023, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on September 21, NASA and NOAA reported based on their annual satellite and balloon-based measurements. This hole spans 10 million square ...
A new study using NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data finds consistent evidence that Earth’s ozone layer is on the mend. A team led by Eun-Su Yang of the Georgia ...
With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this ...
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