The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...
The hole in Earth’s ozone layer — which made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s but which has been slowly healing since an international treaty banned the chemicals creating it — is growing bigger again ...
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It might feel like they’re making us cooler, but refrigerators and air conditioning are actually making our world warmer. Yes, they use a huge amount of electricity, but many older cooling methods ...
While industrial products like chlorofluorocarbons are largely responsible for current ozone depletion, a NASA study finds that by the 2030s climate change may surpass chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as ...
The ocean, a longtime reservoir for CFC-11, will become a source of the ozone-depleting chemical by middle of next century. The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting ...
A short-lived resurgence in the emission of ozone depleting pollutants in eastern China will not significantly delay the recovery of Earth’s protective “sunscreen” layer, according to new research ...
In 2016, sensors began picking up an illegal gas billowing into the atmosphere from eastern China. The gas, CFC-11, was banned in 2010 under the Montreal Protocol — the international treaty to ...
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Pollution hanging over eastern China in February of 2004. CREDIT Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE A short-lived resurgence in the emission of ozone ...