The global oceans are gearing up to spray all that 1980s hair spray back in our faces. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the aerosol chemicals that tore a hole in Earth's protective ozone layer within years ...

Chemicals which caused the hole in Earth’s ozone layer are growing at alarming rates despite an international ban, a new study has found. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made gases once widely used in ...

The concentrations of some ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere are increasing rapidly, scientists warn, despite the production of these chemicals having been banned globally ...

A study finds that ozone-destroying CFCs banned in the 1980s are back in use, but it's not clear where or why. Reading time 3 minutes Thirty years after countries agreed to ease up on the use of ...

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...

NASA: “Without ozone, the Sun’s intense UV radiation would sterilize the Earth’s surface.” It was 36 years ago in panic mode when the world came together like never before unanimously agreeing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ozone layer is on track to fully recover from its depletion within the next four decades, a panel of scientists gathered by ...

The hole in Earth’s ozone layer — which made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s but which has been slowly healing since an international treaty banned the chemicals creating it — is growing bigger again ...

One of the most successful environmental treaties in history was finalized 34 years ago to phase out industrial chemicals that eat away at the Earth’s delicate ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol ...

A mystery source of banned, ozone-destroying chemicals has been pinpointed to eastern China. Scientists noted a spike in the amount of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, in the atmosphere last year, ...