Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this gas can wreak havoc on ...

Scientists Find a Human 'Fingerprint' in the Upper Troposphere's Increasing Ozone ... Complex Impact of Large Wildfires on Ozone Layer Dynamics July 12, 2024 — In a revelation highlighting ...

About 10% of the ozone in the atmosphere is found in the troposphere, the layer we live in; the rest is found in the stratosphere, about 10–50 kilometers (6–30 miles) above the Earth’s surface. Good ...

Ozone, a gas composed of three oxygen atoms, naturally occurs in the Earth's upper atmosphere (stratosphere) and lower atmosphere (troposphere). In the stratosphere, it forms a protective layer ...

The Arctic is one of the regions most strongly affected by climate change. In recent decades, the temperature there has risen four times as fast as the global average. The ASCCI measurement campaign ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer - and how the world came together to fix it. The scientists and politicians who ...

Four decades ago, scientists sounded the alarm after discovering a growing 'hole' in the ozone above Antarctica. This protective layer of gas shields life on Earth from the sun's harmful ...

It acts as a protective layer shielding us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Ground-level ozone, also called tropospheric ozone, is a common air pollutant that can be harmful to human health.

A Hole in the Sky Ozone, a gas composed of three oxygen atoms, naturally occurs in the Earth’s upper atmosphere (stratosphere) and lower atmosphere (troposphere). In the stratosphere, it forms a ...