Next week, the twelfth Meeting Of The Parties To "The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer" will take place in Burkina Faso to negotiate multi-governmental cooperation in the protection of the earth's ozone layer. Given the recent collapse of the United Nations climate talks in the Hague, at which the US refused to agree to reduce global warming through stricter pollution...

The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) database is provided by NASA and contains real-time measurements of ozone in the atmosphere from July 25, 1996 to the current date. The data may be viewed either as raw data (Data File) or as synthesized images (Global Image, North Pole Image, and South Pole Image). The goal of TOMS is to give scientists and the concerned public a better understanding of...

This bulletin on the state of the ozone over the Antarctic region was released August 25, 2000, by the Switzerland-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO Bulletins, released twice monthly between August and December, are based upon provisional data from the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) stations. The purpose of these reports is to view changes in ozone over time. Averaged...