The treaty is universal with 197 member countries. It is legally binding with penalties for countries that flout its provisions. And it is fully funded, meaning poorer countries that might not have ...

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The burgeoning space industry may be posing a significant threat to our planet’s protective ozone layer. Recent studies have ...

A 3D rendering of the ozone hole evolution in 2025. Forty years after global policymakers began grappling with the crisis posed by a gaping hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica, the ...

As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each ...

COLORADO, USA — The gas molecule known as ozone is harmful to humans if we breathe it in, but high in the stratosphere it protects us from being over exposed to the sun's ultraviolet radiation. In ...

Since the Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987, countries have phased out most of the ozone-damaging gases, but their replacements, the HFCs, are powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In 1985, the British ...

New research shows that the 1987 global treaty, designed to protect the ozone layer, has postponed the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic by as much as 15 years. When scientists discovered a hole ...

Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal/AP) It’s rare for a climate change measure to win full-throated support from ...