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Ozone

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

The American Lung Association annual survey found distressing trends due to climate change and, particularly, increases in fine soot pollution linked to wildfires across the West.

By Kristoffer Tigue

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
A helicopter drops water onto a large bushfire in Bargo, southwest of Sydney on Dec. 19, 2019. Credit: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

By Bob Berwyn

Juergen Graeser launches a weather balloon on the helicopter deck of Polarstern research vessel in 2019. Credit: Esther Horvath

New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

By Bob Berwyn

Eagle Ford

Is Texas's Ozone Problem Linked to Fracking?

By Lisa Song

State Department Plans to Tap Montreal Protocol for Urgent Climate Duty

By David Sassoon

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