The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

A new study reveals that chemicals used to replace ozone-damaging CFCs are now driving a surge in a persistent “forever ...

Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan has won the Crafoord Prize, considered a precursor to the Nobel. Over decades, his climate research ...

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Earth's atmosphere ...

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Earth's ozone layer is vital to protecting all forms of life – from crops to humans – from the sun's harmful radiation. This shield in Earth's stratosphere has been depleted for decades, putting life ...

In North America and Europe, emissions of ozone precursors such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs ...

Thousands of satellites that disintegrate upon re-entry release aluminum into the atmosphere, disrupting polar winds and the ...

A Richmond doctor has pleaded guilty after he injected several patients -- many of them unknowingly -- with ozone gas, ...