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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are also potent greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change.
Over 30 years ago, the world banned CFC chemicals to save the ozone layer. But now, climate-fuelled bushfire smoke is putting it at renewed risk
Rocket emissions in the upper atmosphere can damage the ozone layer but are neither measured nor regulated. It’s a policy gap we have to close if the space industry is to grow sustainably.
The US Senate voted to ratify the Kigali Amendment, agreeing on a bipartisan vote to phase down climate-warming HFCs. Now what?
Expanding the low-Earth orbit economy through increased commercial spaceflight will only push our planet further into its climate crisis.
New research shows how the Montreal Protocol protected vegetation, helping keep carbon out of the atmosphere.
HFCs keep refrigerators cool, but when these short-lived climate pollutants leak, they warm the planet.
When solar particles reach the Earth, they not only produce spectacular auroras but also contribute to the chemical reactions leading to ozone depletion, which in turn influences climate patterns.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a global paleopocalyspe.
Artificially dimming the sun, by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere, could reduce the risk of Day Zero level droughts in Cape Town by more than 90% in the future.
Molina, who died on Oct. 8, ‘thought climate change was the biggest problem in the world long before most people did.’ His research on man-made depletion of the ozone layer won the 1995 Nobel Prize.
New research on the Late Devonian extinction suggests the ozone layer could be naturally depleted as the temperature rises.
New research finds that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting substances have boosted the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
Mosses are the only plants that can withstand life in East Antarctica’s frozen landscape. But a new study shows that life is getting even harder, as ozone loss and climate change make conditions even drier.
Almost 30 years ago the world responded to the realisation that our ozone layer was in trouble. The resulting Montreal Protocol was a rare example of global cooperation, but there’s no room for complacency.
Earth’s ozone layer shields us from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Nations have been working to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals since the 1980s, but recent studies show that there is still work to do.
California produces 90 percent of the US strawberry crop, but growers face curbs on toxic chemicals that have helped their industry expand. Can a system centered on mass production become more sustainable?
Australia has ratified an agreement to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, a manmade compound once hailed as the saviour of the ozone layer. What went wrong?
The treaty to limit the destruction of the ozone layer is hailed as the most successful environmental agreement of all time. Three decades on, the ozone layer is slowly but surely returning to health.
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne
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Research Group Leader, CSIRO
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Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
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honorary Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), James Cook University
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Supervisor Global Atmosphere Watch & Data Delivery, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
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Research Projects Officer, Oceans and Atmosphere, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO
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Principal Scientist -- Atmosphere and Climate, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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Researcher, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge
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Research Scientist at Space Science Institute and Fellow, Research School of Physics and Engineering and The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
