Humans have been depleting the ozone layer with chemical products. The unintentional experiment started in the late 1920s, when Thomas Midgley and other industrial chemists began to produce ...

What is the Ozone Layer? The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere, located between 19 and 30 km above ...

The Atmospheric Monitoring Directorate states that ozone is one of the chemical forms in which oxygen is found in nature. It is a molecule that becomes unstable when it is found in high ...

But scientists soon discovered that didn’t matter because these molecules were extremely toxic to the ozone layer! Turns out, when UV light hits a CFC molecule, it releases a chlorine atom which ...

When chlorine is separated from the CFCs and reacts with ozone, it rips apart the ozone molecule, leaving the layer thinner than before. In 1974, two scientists from the University of California ...

Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claim that if you can smell food cooking, it’s probably ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sheds light on the complex relationship between methane emissions and the recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer. The research underscores ...

Researchers at the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, had demonstrated ...

But when Haagy created synthetic smog in the lab, he unknowingly introduced another piece to the puzzle when oxidizing the VOCs: ozone. Oxidation is the process of combining a molecule with oxygen, ...

Human activity accounts for the other half. Volatile chemical products, including paints, pesticides and adhesives, also contribute to ozone produced by human activity. Bird flu virus may survive ...