ozone layer

<!-- -->Mario Molina was born on March 19, 1943, in Mexico CityGoogle on Sunday celebrated the 80th birth anniversary of Dr Mario Molina, a legendary Mexican chemist with a colourful doodle. A co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in…

<!-- -->The wildfires swept through southeast Australia in 2019-20.A wildfire that swept through southeast Australia in 2019-20 unleashed chemicals that widened the ozone layer, according to a new study published in Nature. The study…

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four-years scientific assessment found recovery…

Last Updated: September 16, 2022, 07:00 ISTThe day aims to create awareness about the importance and need of the Ozone layer which is the single protection on Earth against UV rays coming out from the sun. (Representative image:…

A Canadian scientist says he’s discovered a massive hole in the ozone layer over the tropical region of the planet that could impact 50 per cent of the world’s population. Qing-Bin Lu, a professor at the University of Waterloo, says…

13,000 years ago, a comet caused a massive firestorm that covered 10% of Earth’s surface and triggered an ice age causing unprecedented destruction in an event known as the Younger Dryas…

In Antarctica, scientists had detected an appalling drop in Ozone concentration in the spring of 1975; which reached a critical juncture by 1987. It was found that there are man-made ozone-depleting substances (ODS) that are proving…