Antarctic ozone hole measures seventh smallest size in decades

Good News, the Ozone Layer Hole is Continuing to Shrink

Climate change is a huge topic and often debated across the world. We continue to burn fossil fuels and ignore our charge toward human driven climate change but while our behaviour never seems to improve, something else does! For the last few decades we have been pumping chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere causing a hole in the ozone layer to form. Thanks largely to worldwide regulation changes and a reduction in the use of these chemicals, …

Antarctic ozone hole measures seventh smallest size in decades

The ozone hole over the Antarctic could fully mend by 2066, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Ozone Hole At Its Smallest In Five Years – Covering Around 20 Million Square Kilometers

That is about three times the size of the contiguous United States

Ozone Layer Healing Progresses as 2024 Antarctic Hole Ranks Among the Smallest in Decades

The Antarctic ozone hole in 2024 measured the seventh smallest since recovery efforts began, highlighting progress made under the Montreal Protocol. Despite this improvement, the ozone layer remains far from fully restored, with scientists predicting full recovery by 2066.

2024 Antarctic ozone hole 7th-smallest since recovery began

Scientists launch a NOAA ozonesonde, frostpoint hygrometer, and POPS aerosol particle counter on a balloon to help monitor the Antarctic Ozone Hole on October 5, 2024, at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Image via William Brotman/ United States Antarctic Program/ NOAA Climate.gov. NOAA Climate.gov originally published this story on October 30, 2024. Edits by EarthSky. Ozone layer could ‘fully recover’ by 2066 Healing continues in the atmos…

The Big Picture: The Earth’s Ozone Hole Continues To Heal, Offering Hope For Tomorrow. - Scientific Inquirer

Colorized electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis. Several spiral-shaped bacteria have been highlighted in gold. (CREDIT: NIAID) In 2024, the Antarctic ozone hole was relatively small, ranking seventh smallest since 1992, when the Montreal Protocol began phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals. The hole peaked on September 28 at 22.4 million square kilometers and averaged about 20 million square kilometers over …