The ozone hole above the Antarctic has hit its maximum extent for the year. Due to warm temperatures, the opening in the protective atmospheric layer was the second smallest it has been for 20 years, ...

Air pollution in Palm Beach County exceeded federal safety standards for the first time in 11 years on Wednesday when ground-level ozone climbed briefly into the unhealthy range. An unusual ...

The Space Shuttle Endeavour silhouetted against Earth's atmosphere. The orange layer is the troposphere, the white layer is the stratosphere, and the blue layer is the mesosphere. The shuttle is ...

Ozone pollution has increased across the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 years, researchers have found in a new study — the first study to use ozone data collected by commercial aircraft. In the ...

From big-ticket items like auto-body work to everyday purchases like deodorant, Chicago-area consumers would see a wide variety of changes under the federal government`s ozone-control plan, partially ...

The times are rapidly changing — for the better, at least — in terms of ozone pollution for the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. But despite improvements, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside ...

In a recent essay (Tribune, April 13) Dixy Lee Ray dismisses the problems of the ”alleged” ozone hole as ”overblown” and states that loss of our stratospheric ozone will not lead to increases in skin ...

In a first-ever study using ozone data from commercial aircraft, researchers found that levels of the pollutant in the lowest part of Earth's atmosphere have increased across the Northern Hemisphere ...

The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...