A gap in the Antarctic ozone layer has impacted the way the waters in the southern oceans mix, with the potential to alter the amount of atmospheric CO2 and possibly affect climate change.

That is somewhat thicker than the lowest level ever recorded when the ozone layer hit 92 DU in 2006, but still thin enough to ...

Dr Jonathan Shanklin, who was one of the first people to discover the ozone layer was thinning, recently told BBC News that the recovery cannot be taken for granted, and "we cannot be complacent".

The ozone layer is a thin shield of gas in the Earth’s atmosphere that protects the planet, absorbing the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays and helping to preserve all life on the planet.

The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientist raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide. As a result, the upper ozone layer above the Northern ...

Darryn W. Waugh, from the John Hopkins Kriegar School of Arts and Sciences, said: “This may sound entirely academic, but believe me, it’s not. This matters because the southern oceans play an ...

There is actually no “hole” in the ozone layer, just a thinning, which happens cyclically, as with climate changes. Oct 22nd, 2013 - 11:06 am 0 redp0ll ...

much of the ozone layer will have recovered. However, the report predicts that the polar regions will take two decades longer to recover. In a world where we increasingly hear reports of climate ...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover from human-made damage following the near total phasing out of ozone-depleting substances, according to a UN-backed report. The Earth ...

This colourful video tracks the behaviour of the ozone layer over Antarctica across all ... which is more properly described as a deep thinning, to be routinely under 20 million sq km (8 million ...