World Ozone Day 2025: Significance, origins, theme this year - everything you need to knowWorld Ozone Day, observed annually on September 16th, highlights the ozone layer's vital role in protecting Earth from harmful UV radiation...
16 Sep, 2025, 07.42 AM IST
Ozone layer on track to return to 1980s levels by mid-century, says WMO reportA new WMO report indicates the ozone layer is healing, potentially reaching 1980s levels by mid-century, thanks to the Montreal Protocol's ...
16 Sep, 2025, 07.34 AM IST
Ozone layer on road to recovery despite volcano eruption, UN weather body saysThe World Meteorological Organization reports that the ozone layer is on track for long-term recovery, despite a brief depletion due to a v...
17 Sep, 2024, 11.10 AM IST
What is "extreme solar particle event"? How may it damage Earth's ozone layer?Scientists warn that extreme solar particle events, occurring every thousand years, could severely damage Earth's ozone layer, increasing U...
14 Jul, 2024, 01.41 AM IST
Will Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites deplete ozone layer? The full reportThe ozone can be depleted by the internet satellite like Elon Musk’s Starlink. There are more than 8,000 internet satellites in low-Earth o...
20 Jun, 2024, 01.52 AM IST
Earth’s Ozone layer is recovering as damaging chemicals phased out12 Jan, 2023, 10.23 AM IST
Ozone layer of Earth is set to be almost healed by 2040, says reportEarth’s ozone layer is on course to be fully recovered within decades, according to a UN report.
09 Jan, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
Ozone layer on track to fully recover within four decades: UNThe ozone layer in the upper atmosphere that shields life on Earth from deadly solar radiation is on track to recover within four decades, ...
09 Jan, 2023, 08.49 PM IST
World Ozone Day: How is the Earth's ozone layer doing, 28 years on?Earth's ozone layer is designed in such a way that most of the harmful radiation from our solar system's central star is dissipated, but in...
16 Sep, 2022, 12.54 PM IST
India has successfully phased out production, consumption of ozone depleting substances, says MoS ChoubeyReferring to Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which was recently ratified by India, the minister said issues relating to minimisi...
16 Sep, 2021, 05.39 PM IST
Today is World Ozone Day: Know its significanceThe day marks the anniversary of the Montreal Protocol which was signed to keep in check Ozone depleting substances.
16 Sep, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar stresses on research to combat climate changeEnvironment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that the challenge of climate change can be overcome with technology and research.
16 Sep, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
Montreal Protocol helped slow down ozone depletionThe researchers suggest that the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic would have grown in size by an additional 40 per cent by 2013.
27 May, 2015, 05.05 PM IST
India staring at ozone trouble, says Pune scientistCity-based scientist Gufran Beig said the Earth's protective ozone layer is on track to recovery in the next few decades.
16 Sep, 2014, 01.35 AM IST
Ozone layer on track to recovery, says UN reportEarth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades according to a new UN report.
11 Sep, 2014, 02.32 PM IST
- Ozone layer that started depleting in 1980s healing
The protective ozone layer that started depleting heavily in the 1980’s is on a recovery mode according to a new assessment by 300 scientis...
11 Sep, 2014, 05.26 AM IST
- Asteroid strike in oceans can destroy ozone layer: Study
An asteroid splashdown in one of the Earth's oceans could trigger a destructive chemical cycle that would wipe out half the ozone layer, a ...
27 Oct, 2010, 03.44 PM IST