Design for Demise has long been the gold standard for satellite safety. It involves designing spacecraft to burn completely ...

The closing of this year's ozone hole over the Antarctic continues the positive trend of smaller gaps in Earth's ozone layer ...

The ozone hole that forms yearly over Antarctica has grown for the third year in a row. At nearly 10 million square miles (26.4 million square kilometers), the ozone hole is the largest it's been ...

The NOAA and NASA agencies have reported that the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is this year the fifth smallest since 1992. At its peak, it covered an average of 18.71 million ...

"This decision is an important step forward for public health in Detroit," said Nicholas Leonard of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center.

Invisible to the eye but powerful in impact, HCFCs or hydrochlorofluorocarbons are chemicals once widely used to cool homes ...

The ozone layer - which is on track for recovery - protects against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun Human action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, ...

Over the past decades, rising levels of ozone pollution have been interrupting pollination, impacting the livelihood of both plants and the animals that pollinate them. Researchers now explain how an ...

A recent increase in a number of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) poses a climate threat, scientists say. Five ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons significantly increased in the Earth's ...