A new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reveals a 17-year delay in the projected recovery of ...

A promising new study suggests that Earth's ozone layer could be back on track to a full recovery after four years of ...

The addition of lead to gasoline in the United States was responsible for 151 million cases of psychiatric disorders such as ...

The Weatherhood forecast for Tuesday, December 3, is for a mix of sun and cloud in the qathet region with little chance of ...

which banned production and emissions of known ozone-destroying chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), previously used as a common refrigerant. Murphy also notes many other ways in which ...

SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Yonhap) -- Gen. Kang Shin-chul, the deputy commander of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC), was set to depart for the United States on Wednesday to discuss ways to ...

HCFCs were introduced as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were once widely used in cooling systems but caused severe damage to the ozone layer. Although HCFCs are less harmful than ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica is the seventh smallest it’s been since the early 1990s. Recovery began with the Montreal Protocol, which ended the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs ...

retired MD, I write and lecture on energy, climate, grid, and epidemiology I post almost daily on science topics, dealing with energy systems, the climate system, the electric grid and epidemiology.

In his early years it was R-12, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) which was banned in the 1990s for damaging the ozone. Then there was R-134a. It’s better for the ozone but adds to global warming.