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

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 …

Hole in the ozone layer continues to heal

Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066. During the peak of ozone depletion season from 7 September through 13 October, the 2024 area of the ozone hole ranked the seventh…

Antarctic ozone hole shows signs of recovery, full restoration possible by 2066

During the monitoring period from September to mid-October, researchers noted that the ozone hole over Antarctica was the seventh smallest on record.