The ozone layer above Antarctica is thinning at an alarming rate, posing threat to the wildlife breeding below in the ice.

In densely populated coastal areas, reactions of polluted air with sea salt aerosol from the ocean can lead to high surface ozone levels that affect air quality. Chlorine has become infamous for ...

Figure 1: Influence of greenhouse-gas emissions on stratospheric ozone concentration in northern mid-latitudes. In the 1970s, before chlorine and bromine became the focus of the ozone debate ...

Learn about the ozone hole above Antarctica that is now confirmed to be shrinking due to reductions of harmful ...

Unknown to the chemists who developed them, CFCs were accumulating and dispersing through the atmosphere. At high altitudes, where conditions are different from the Earth’s surface, those chlorine ...

Chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, which are made up of chlorine, fluorine and carbon atoms, are the biggest culprit in ozone depletion. More commonly known as CFCs, they can be found in ...

Scientists use data from the Microwave Limb Sounder, MLS, aboard the Aura satellite, which has been making measurements around the globe since mid-2004. Scientists have shown through direct ...