The world would be on track for a collapse of the ozone layer and an additional 2.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century if it hadn't agreed in the 1980s to ban CFCs, chemicals ...

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...

Chemicals brought in to help protect the ozone layer have inadvertently spread huge quantities of toxic 'forever chemicals' around the globe, a new study reveals. Back in the 1980s, experts discovered ...

Earlier this year, the United Nations announced that the stratospheric ozone layer is on track to recover within 4 decades thanks to actions taken under the Montreal Protocol. Adopted in 1987, the ...

Scientists have detected a massive and mysterious rise in a banned ozone-eating chemical which they believe is originating from around China, Mongolia and the Korean peninsula. They have warned that ...

A study finds that ozone-destroying CFCs banned in the 1980s are back in use, but it's not clear where or why. Reading time 3 minutes Thirty years after countries agreed to ease up on the use of ...

There is much less ozone at the centre of the ozone hole compared to nearly two decades ago, according to new study which suggests some yet-unknown chemicals may be damaging the Earth’s protective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ozone layer is on track to fully recover from its depletion within the next four decades, a panel of scientists gathered by ...

No wonder politicians curse the environment. After intense horse-trading, arm twisting and agonizing, 93 industrialized nations agreed in 1990 to phase out by the year 2000 chemicals that destroy the ...

“In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or ...