Last October the ozone hole reached a record size of 23 million square kilometers, some 20 percent larger than the previous year. The team was able to show that a string of eruptions at the ...

Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images A hole in the ozone layer that appears annually over Antarctica is persisting later into each year, and biologists say this puts wildlife at risk.

Now, researchers warn that the hole is lingering continent for several weeks longer, compared with four years ago. This means Antarctic wildlife such as seals and penguins are at greater risk of ...

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually ...

Nov. 21, 2023 — Despite public perception, the Antarctic ozone hole has been remarkably massive and long-lived over the past four years; researchers believe chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs ...

It's well known that Earth's ozone layer offers a protective barrier from the sun's harmful rays. Unfortunately, a famous hole in the layer exists over the Antarctic for a few months a year ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica grows and closes up again each year – having a hole at all isn’t ideal, but scientists know roughly when to expect it. However, its appearance is now persisting ...

If you’ve glanced at a newspaper or browsed the internet over the last few decades, you’ve probably heard of the “ozone hole.” This concentrated area of ozone depletion allows UVB to ...

A hole in the ozone layer - the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere - now lingers over the frozen continent for more of the year. A major cause of ozone loss is believed to be the ...

For Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun's damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in the ozone layer - the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere - now ...