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Inside the Ozone Layer
A new atmospheric model is able to quantify man-made versus naturally occurring damage to the stratosphere with an eye toward repairing the diminishing ozone layer that is located within the stratosphere.   view more (2006-02-24)

NASA Study Finds Clock Ticking Slower On Ozone Hole Recovery
The Antarctic ozone hole's recovery is running late. According to a new NASA study, the full return of the protective ozone over the South Pole will take nearly 20 years longer than scientists previously expected.   view more (2006-06-30)

NASA Study Links "Smog" to Arctic Warming
NASA scientists have found that a major form of global air pollution involved in summertime "smog" has also played a significant role in warming the Arctic.   view more (2006-03-15)

NASA's AURA satellite peers into Earth's ozone hole
NASA researchers, using data from the agency's AURA satellite, determined the seasonal ozone hole that developed over Antarctica this year is smaller than in previous years.   view more (2005-12-07)

Volcanic aerosol clouds and gases lead to ozone destruction
Volcanic eruptions destroy ozone and create 'mini-ozone holes', according to two new studies by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.   view more (2006-11-09)

A Warm South Pole? Yes, on Neptune!
An international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope has discovered that the south pole of Neptune is much hotter than the rest of the planet. This is consistent with the fact that it is late southern summer and this region has been in sunlight for about 40 years.   view more (2007-09-19)

The tropics may be expanding
Atmospheric temperature measurements by U.S. weather satellites indicate Earth's hot, tropical zone has expanded farther from the equator since 1979, says a study by scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington.   view more (2006-05-26)

Underground Nuclear Explosions Deteriorate The Ozone Layer
Russian scientists have found one more cause of depletion of the ozone layer. They think that abyssal gases can go to the surface and reach stratosphere, deteriorating the ozone shield. Underground nuclear explosions enforce this process. A geologist Boris Golubov of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS and a climatologist Grigoriy Kruchenitsky... view more... (2002-08-16)

Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says study
While Earth's ozone layer is slowly being replenished following an international 1987 agreement banning CFCs, the recovery is occurring in a changing atmosphere and is unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels.   view more (2006-05-04)

Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere
Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere.   view more (2008-05-16)

Mountainous plateau creates ozone 'halo' around Tibet
Not only is the air around the world's highest mountains thin, but it's thick with ozone, says a new study from University of Toronto researchers.   view more (2005-12-08)

Geological reasons of ozone layer destruction
The modern science admits that the ozone concentration in the stratosphere is diminishing. This process has been fixing since the middle of 1980s. "The most popular hypothesis about technogenic freon that destroys the ozone layer is quite vulnerable", - said Dr. of geology Vladimir Sivorotkin who studies the problem of the ozone layer for ten... view more... (1999-10-19)

Scientists want to solve puzzle of excess water vapor near cirrus clouds
A number of researchers in recent years have reported perplexing findings of water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change.   view more (2006-12-01)

Winds trigger increases in ozone destroying gases in upper stratosphere
A surprising new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates winds circling high above the far Northern Hemisphere have a much greater impact on upper stratospheric ozone levels than scientists had thought.   view more (2006-09-29)

High-Flying Balloons Begin Tracking Emerging Hurricanes
In a unique collaboration, U.S. and French researchers are launching large, specialized balloons into the stratosphere to drop nearly 300 instrument packages over wide swaths of Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.   view more (2006-09-01)

NASA and NOAA Announce Ozone Hole is a Double Record Breaker
NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists report this year's ozone hole in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere has broken records for area and depth.   view more (2006-10-23)

Tibet Provides Passage for Chemicals to Reach the Stratosphere
NASA and university researchers have found that thunderstorms over Tibet provide a main pathway for water vapor and chemicals to travel from the lower atmosphere, where human activity directly affects atmospheric composition, into the stratosphere, where the protective ozone layer resides.   view more (2006-05-10)

Burning asteroids may play 'more important climate role than previously recognized'
Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth's weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.   view more (2005-08-26)

Stratospheric injections could help cool Earth, computer model shows
A two-pronged approach to stabilizing climate, with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as injections of climate-cooling sulfates, could prove more effective than either approach used separately.   view more (2006-09-15)

Laughing Gas in a Vicious Circle
Italian researchers discover another mechanism for the formation of atmospheric N2O Summer smog, the ozone hole, the greenhouse effect – the complex web of chemical reactions in the atmosphere, which leads to manifold environmental problems, is still not fully cleared up. In a tricky way, a single chemical compound is found at the center of... view more... (2001-05-15)
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