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

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NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began
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Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern…

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New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate
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NASA has selected four proposals for concept studies of missions to help us better understand Earth science key focus areas…

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2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole.  It is the 12th…

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NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
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As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…

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What’s Going on with the Hole in the Ozone Layer? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 44
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What’s going on with the hole in the ozone layer? There used to be a huge problem, and because of…

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Two NASA Studies Find Lower Methane Emissions in Los Angeles Region
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Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.

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Ozone Hole Continues Shrinking in 2022, NASA and NOAA Scientists Say
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The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached an average area of 8.9 million square miles (23.2 million square kilometers) between Sept. 7…

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

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