Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

To a climate skeptic who thinks the story from the '90s about the big hole in the ozone layer that was "going to kill us" might itself have some holes in it and wants to know what happened to the ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to take their place.

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four-years ...

On Saturday 16 th September, Kenya joins the international community in marking the 2023 World Ozone Day, also known as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. During this ...

On September 16, 1987, the international community did something almost unheard of, especially in today's world: It worked together to protect the planet. "This important milestone demonstrates the ...

The ozone layer, a thin shield of gas, is seen from space. (NASA) While the majority of climate news and developments paint a grim picture, an announcement from the United Nations yesterday proves ...

In assessing a recent United Nations report about the ozone layer, American policymakers should turn to an unlikely source — Ronald Reagan. Reagan is not regarded as an environmentally conscious ...

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” might significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer that shields life ...

Wild fluctuations in temperature, droughts, flooding, snowstorms, wildfires and other unusual weather phenomena have many worrying about what is in store for 2022 as our climate lurches from one ...