Global cooperation to protect the ozone layer can ensure a better future for us all

Sep 17, 2022, at 09:21 pm

New York: As the Montreal Protocol to Protect the Ozone Layer turns 35 on Friday, World Ozone Day, the United Nations has said that continuing the level of cooperation that led to the treaty’s adoption and success is just what is needed to protect life on Earth, end the climate crisis and ensure a brighter future for us all.

Arctic observes alarming levels of ozone depletion

May 02, 2020, at 11:11 am

Geneva/UNI: Depletion of the ozone layer, the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet radiation, reached an unprecedented level over large parts of the Arctic this spring, World Meteorological Organisation said on Saturday.

Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime, UN environment agency declares on World Day

Sep 17, 2019, at 10:23 am

New York: At the current momentum, scientists predict the planet’s protective shield of gas - or ozone layer as we know it - will be completely healed as far as some regions of the planet are concerned, by the 2030’s, the UN’s environmental agency (UNEP) revealed on Monday.

Ozone hole could've been a big one this year – but it wasn’t: Finds study

Nov 03, 2018, at 03:19 pm

New York, Nov 3 (IBNS): The ozone hole that forms over the Antarctic each September is primarily driven by two factors: the amount of ozone-destroying chlorine in the polar stratosphere and the availability of ice crystals in stratospheric clouds for the chlorine to bind to. 

The ozone layer continues to thin: Study

Feb 06, 2018, at 11:16 pm

New York, Feb 6 (IBNS): The vital ozone layer has continued to deplete in recent years over the densely populated mid-latitudes and tropics, while it is recovering at the poles. This is documented by an international research team in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.