There, sulfate aerosols (from industrial pollutants as well as volcanoes) attract the water molecules like a sponge and, plumped up, provide a bed for chemical reactions that destroy ozone.

India's cities are already ranked among the world's most polluted, based on concentrations of fine particulate matter in the air. Now new research indicates they are battling rising levels of another ...

Compounds with a chlorine or bromine moiety (e.g., halothane, isoflurane, chlorofluorocarbons) can deplete the atmospheric ozone layer, resulting in increased ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth.

Drug Design and Development Research Center, The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14176-14411, Iran ...