The extreme cold and unique atmospheric conditions over the South Pole accelerated the depletion, making Antarctica ground zero for ozone loss. Since the Montreal Protocol’s regulations took ...

If that much ozone depletion occurred over inhabited regions ... the civilian version of the U-2 spy plane—in the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment. Scientists do not keep aircraft, or even ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica is recovering ... after noticing something that others had overlooked: the ozone depletion was occurring in the lower stretches of the ozone layer, about eight ...

The Antarctic ozone hole is about one-third ... as Australia suffered severe droughts in the era before ozone depletion and before the warming seen in the late 20th Century.

which kept the temperature of the ozone layer over Antarctica consistently cold. Ozone depletion is directly related to the temperature in the stratosphere, which is the layer of the atmosphere ...

The ozone layer is on the mend, and it's thanks to human action. A new MIT-led study confirms - with 95% confidence - that ...

Scientists first became aware of the depletion of the ozone layer in 1985, when British researchers in Antarctica were measuring the amount of ozone in the skies above. They found that ozone levels ...

Image caption, A diagram of the ozone layer ‘hole’ above Antarctica. The danger of CFCs ... showed that between then and 2005, ozone depletion was reduced by 20%. If this is kept up ...

(CNN)-- The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008 is larger in both ... German and Dutch researchers who analyzed satellite data. Depletion of ozone is caused by extreme cold temperatures at high ...