Commands have various events to launch their local Combined Federal Campaign pledge drives, held at various times between now and Jan. 11. Here, a tug-of-war tournament helped kick off the local 2017 ...
After detective work worthy of Sherlock Holmes, researchers announced on July 8 that they had pinned down the cause of the recently discovered increase in the chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) known as ...
CFCs were once considered a triumph of modern chemistry. Stable and versatile, these chemicals were used in hundreds of products, from military systems to the ubiquitous can of hairspray. Then in 1987 ...
Good news for the ozone layer: After a recent spike in CFC-11 pollution, emissions of this ozone-destroying chemical are on the decline. These findings suggest that the hole in Earth’s ozone layer is ...
Service members from Joint Task Force 505 prepare to load relief supplies from Samaritan’s Purse International Relief Organization onto an Osprey in Nepal in 2015. Samaritan's Purse is one of several ...
Like other chlorofluorocarbons, CFC-11’s breakdown products in the atmosphere include chlorine, which severs the bonds that hold trios of oxygen atoms together as ozone. A piece of deft detective work ...
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