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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ocean, a longtime reservoir for CFC-11, will become a source of the ozone-depleting chemical by middle of next century. The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting ...

Allan Hegland ("Secular humanists liars and suckers," Forum, Jan. 10) rails at scientific peer review with the claim that proponents of unpopular views are somehow not permitted to publish in ...

Carbon dioxide emissions are not the primary factor in recent global warming, a newly published peer-reviewed study reports. To the extent humans are enhancing the planet’s natural recovery from the ...

The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. They absorb these gases from the atmosphere and draw them down to the deep, where they can ...