Ozone Layer

In 2024 the ozone hole over Antarctica reached its annual maximum extent, with an area of 8.5 million square miles.

Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern…

NASA has selected four proposals for concept studies of missions to help us better understand Earth science key focus areas…

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole. It is the 12th…

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…

What’s going on with the hole in the ozone layer? There used to be a huge problem, and because of…

Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.

The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached an average area of 8.9 million square miles (23.2 million square kilometers) between Sept. 7…

Air quality planning agencies in the U.S. Great Lakes region now include high-resolution NASA satellite data and near real-time Earth…