Ozone Layer
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NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began
Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern…
2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole. It is the 12th…
NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
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? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 44
What’s going on with the hole in the ozone layer? There used to be a huge problem, and because of…
Two NASA Studies Find Lower Methane Emissions in Los Angeles Region
Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.
Ozone Hole Continues Shrinking in 2022, NASA and NOAA Scientists Say
The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached an average area of 8.9 million square miles (23.2 million square kilometers) between Sept. 7…
