Learn more about the ozone hole, how it was created, how it was healed, and what message it offers about climate change.

NASA and NOAA have announced encouraging news for Earth's climate: the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades. According to both agencies, international ...

WASHINGTON – NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth’s ...

The United States has spent about $100 billion eliminating ozone-destroying chemicals from air conditioners and refrigerators, by some estimates. Now, NASA is spending $12 billion to measure how ...

On September 28, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size for 2024, covering a total area of roughly 20 million square kilometers. While this was large enough to engulf the entire continent ...

A new study using NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data finds consistent evidence that Earth’s ozone layer is on the mend. A team led by Eun-Su Yang of the Georgia ...

In 2023, the Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on September 21, NASA and NOAA reported based on their annual satellite and balloon-based measurements. This hole spans 10 million square ...

The following article is courtesy of NASA: Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 ...

With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this ...

Many years ago, one of the biggest concerns about our planet was the depletion of our ozone layer. The concern was so great that new laws were passed banning certain propellants in aerosol products to ...

The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached an average area of 8.9 million square miles (23.2 million square kilometers) between Sept. 7 and Oct. 13, 2022. This depleted area of the ozone layer over the ...