In their book “Climate Shock”, Gernot Wagner and ... which succeeded in curbing depleting substances (ODS) to a point of full recovery of the Ozone Layer. Firms and governments must collaborate to ...

Mr Rouil says: 'The Montreal Protocol and its subsequent amendments have been highly effective in curbing emissions of ozone-depleting substances, but there is still some variability in this ...

The study showed large uncertainties regarding how much of this recovery was due to concerted efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances, or if the shrinking ozone hole was a result of other ...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Scientists including the MIT team have observed ...

However, because CFCs persist in the atmosphere for decades, average Arctic ozone is not expected to return to 1980 levels until about 2045, they note. Higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the ...

Earth’s ozone layer — damaged in the 1970s and 1980s by ozone-depleting substances — is continuing to recover well, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s newest Ozone and UV ...

The Montreal Protocol, finalized in 1987, was a global agreement designed to get rid of ozone-depleting substances (ODS's) from the atmosphere.

Susan Solomon, atmospheric scientist and professor at M.I.T. “No doubt, climate change is probably the heaviest lift we’ve ever attempted,” she said. Rachel Woolf for The New York Times ...

Antarctic wildlife is being sunburnt: Hole in the ozone layer now lingers over the continent for most of the year, leaving seals and penguins exposed to dangerous levels of UV, a study warns ...

Inexpensive ozone-depleting chemicals called CFCs were everywhere, in household products like hair spray and deodorants, in refrigerators, air conditioners, cars, foam packaging, etc. Production of ...

He arrived there in 1976, just in time to join a fledgling branch created to study the ozone layer, and saw the research through to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned the production of many ...