17% of the Earth's protective ozone layer vanished. Holes in the ozone layer formed not just over Antarctica—as they currently do each spring—but over the Arctic, too. By 2040, the ultraviolet (UV) ...

There’s no end to new information about vitamin D, skin cancer, and sun protection factor (SPF ... more deeply into the middle layer of the skin,” says David Fiorentino, MD, PhD. UV rays are stronger ...

Long-term exposure to UV radiation threatens human life ... years of the Montreal Protocol’s success in protecting the stratospheric ozone layer against synthetic chemicals that also cause ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover ... Exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the Sun “causes cancer and eye damage in humans” and“ also damages plants ...

where UV rays have less distance to travel before reaching the ground. The ozone layer provides protection from UV rays. But greenhouse gases and pollutants have caused the ozone layer to thin ...

The hole in the ozone ... that the ozone layer hole as it expands to the north, over the tip of South America continent this week, it will be reaching its maximum size with UV radiation at 12 ...

it is important to use specific products to protect the car's paint. Sunscreens and sealants are designed to add an extra ...

Essentially the ozone layer absorbs the Sun’s most harmful UV rays - 98% of them in fact ... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that since then the US has avoided: 280 ...

The earth is putting its jacket back on after human activity had damaged the protective ... and absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Destruction to the ozone layer has led to increased ...

The EAD comes on the occasion of the ‘International Day for the Protection of Ozone Layer’ on September 16. The ozone layer provides a fragile shield against ultraviolet rays emitted by the ...

This new research reinforces the idea that a supernova in the Milky Way could affect the ionosphere and even damage the ozone layer, which protects us against dangerous ultraviolet radiation from ...

1 to 2 Low Sun protection not required unless ... where it helps block UV radiation from the Sun. Each year, the layer of ozone in the atmosphere above Antarctica becomes thinner.