This concentrated area of ozone depletion allows UVB to penetrate the stratosphere, resulting in the health and environmental effects we touched on above. Scientists have known about Earth’s ...

Ozone constitutes a very small fraction of the atmosphere, but its presence is of vital importance to life on our planet. Ozone acts as a shield protecting earth from harmful solar Ultraviolet (UV) ...

Scientists use data from the Microwave Limb Sounder, MLS, aboard the Aura satellite, which has been making measurements around the globe since mid-2004. Scientists have shown through direct ...

The ozone layer is a part of Earth’s atmosphere that captures some of the Sun ’s ultraviolet (UV) light emissions. When the ...