The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was discovered in the 1980s. It begins to form each year in August and reached its maximum size late September or early October, before closing from mid ...

The large ozone hole in 2020 has been driven by a strong, stable and cold polar vortex, which kept the temperature of the ozone layer over Antarctica consistently cold. Ozone depletion is directly ...

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However, the ozone hole still covered an average of almost ... radiation starts to erode the ozone layer. However, in June ...

Image caption, A diagram of the ozone layer ‘hole’ above Antarctica. The danger of CFCs was reiterated in 1985 by a group of Cambridge scientists. They found what was often called a ‘hole ...

The danger is still real, even as the hole shrinks ... Penguins and seals in Antarctica are getting scorched. Without sufficient ozone to shield them, these animals face sunburns and health ...

there is no hole in the sky. But the area has significantly less—as much as two-thirds less—protective ozone to shield the Earth's surface. In the past decade, ozone holes have stretched as much as 29 ...

It’s basically our planet’s natural sunscreen. And it had grown extremely thin over Antarctica. So the ozone hole, as it became known, was absorbing less UV light than normal. In fact ...

A Glasgow man has been describing spending the joys of Christmas working in the remote icefields of Antarctica.

This colourful video tracks the behaviour of the ozone layer over Antarctica across all of 2016. It shows clearly the annual “hole” that appears above the South Pole in the austral springtime ...

British Antarctic Survey is looking for people to work at its research stations in Antarctica in a range of roles ...

Ozone hole above Antarctica is filling up, thanks to the success of Montreal Protocol The Ozone layer is on track to mend itself within decades due to success of Monetreal protocol, finds a recent ...