News Stories relating to "ozone"

We need to think about OZONE again! - We've warned about food shortages before, but now there's a new reason crops are being damaged: ozone. Global warming, bee deaths, droughts and fuel prices are just a few reasons for the current global food crisis that is making headlines around the world. Rising levels of ozone in the...

Ozone may prove the key to the link between high temperature (they kind caused by climate change) and the increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke.

Rresearchers studied almost 100 million people in 95 different geographical areas across the US during the summer months of June to September, and looked at health and weather...

Good news: the ozone hole is closing, due to a 1987 international agreement that banned the use of ozone-destroying chemicals. Even better news: this is good for global warming too, since chloroflurocarbons (CFCs?which were once used in air conditioners, refrigerators and as propellants in some cleaning products) are also major greenhouse gases...

Climate change has been causing an unexpectedly rapidthinning of the ozone layer worldwide, as melanoma,previously thought to be a disease of adults, has suddenlybegun increasing in children.

The decline of the ozone layer has been a source of humor ontalk radio programs and among politicians, who have advisedthose with environmental...