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Ozone Depletion Trumps Greenhouse Gas Increase in Jet-Stream Shift
January 31, 2013 Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward direction, according to ... > full story -
Ozone Thinning Has Changed Ocean Circulation
January 31, 2013 A hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has changed the way that waters in the southern oceans mix, a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and ... > full story -
NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate
January 22, 2013 A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location ... > full story -
Gas That Triggers Ozone Destruction Revealed
January 13, 2013 Scientists have made a significant discovery about the cause of the destruction of ozone over ... > full story -
NASA Chases Climate Change Clues Into the Stratosphere
January 9, 2013 Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how ... > full story -
Ozone Levels Have Sizeable Impact on Worker Productivity
December 18, 2012 Researchers assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural worker productivity using daily variations in ozone levels. Their results show that ozone, even at levels below current air-quality ... > full story -
Unexpected Microbes Fighting Harmful Greenhouse Gas
November 21, 2012 The environment has a more formidable opponent than carbon dioxide. Another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, is 300 times more potent and also destroys the ozone layer each time it is released into the ... > full story -
Ozone's Impact on Soybean Yield: Reducing Future Losses
October 30, 2012 Ozone is a pollutant that damages crops, particularly soybean. Researchers have investigated the responses of seven different soybean genotypes to eight ozone concentrations. The plants were exposed ... > full story -
2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
October 24, 2012 The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years. Scientists attribute the change to warmer temperatures in the Antarctic lower ... > full story -
Ozone Affects Forest Watersheds
October 18, 2012 Scientists have found that rising levels of ozone, a greenhouse gas, may amplify the impacts of higher temperatures and reduce streamflow from forests to rivers, streams, and other water bodies. Such ... > full story
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