Growing plants absorb some of the carbon dioxide emitted by human burning of fossil fuels for energy. However, according to a new study in the journal Nature, ground-level ozone (AKA “smog”) will rise ...

Walter F. Schoen (Voice, Oct. 19) complains that environmentalists are supporting contradictory positions, both for and against ozone-level reduction. Let us restate the facts: Ozone (a short-lived ...

Over the past four decades, America has drastically reduced its emissions and dramatically improved its air quality. Since 1980, total emissions of the six principal air pollutants have fallen by more ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. Essentially, ozone (O 3) is an unstable and highly reactive form of ...

At this time of year, as the sun rises over Antarctica, a “hole” opens up in Earth’s ozone layer. The ozone layer is a vital planetary boundary that protects all life on Earth from the sun’s damaging ...

The ozone layer is a thin yet crucial shield of gas in Earth’s stratosphere that protects all living beings from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Without it, life as we know it would be at ...

1. Ozone was first discovered and isolated by the German-Swiss chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1839. 2. Ozone is a pale blue gas with a distinctive pungent smell. 3. Schönbein named it ozone ...

The international day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed on September 16, with India participating since 1995. The theme for World Ozone Day 2024 is “Montreal Protocol: Advancing ...

A team of American scientists said Monday it had found “strong evidence” that a chemical process is causing a mysterious hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. In remarks transmitted by satellite ...