The MIT professor’s groundbreaking work on atmospheric chemistry helped lay steps towards recovery of the ozone layer and demonstrated the lasting impacts of carbon emissions on Earth’s climate.

New results show with high statistical confidence that ozone recovery is going strong. By Jennifer Chu | MIT News - Link to story on MIT NEWS An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Foreground image of the ozone layer is from Sept. 28, 2024. Credit: figures courtesy of NASA; MIT News A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of glo

By UW Staff, Link to Full Story Best-selling author Daniel James Brown and MIT atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon will receive honorary degrees at the 2024 UW Commencement. Photo: University of Washington The University of Washington 149th Commencement is scheduled for Saturday, June 8, at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. This year, the UW will recognize best-selling author Daniel James Brown and Susan Solomon, a professor of environmental science and chemistry at the M

By Paige Colley | EAPS - Link to story on EAPS Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha presented Susan Solomon with the VinFuture Award for Female Innovator at an award ceremony on December 20 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Solomon was recognized for her work on ozone depletion and the creation of the Montreal Protocol. Image courtesy the VinFuture Foundation. Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies Susan Solomon has been awarded the 2023 VinFuture Award for Fema

If wildfires become larger and more frequent, they might stall ozone recovery for years.

By Future of Life | EAPS - Link to story Celebrating the contributions of Joseph Farman, Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen for helping save our ozone layer On 16 September 1987, humanity took its first step towards saving the ozone layer, and thereby avoiding a climate catastrophe, by signing the Montreal Protocol. The 2021 Future of Life Award goes to Stephen Andersen, Susan Solomon, and the late Joseph Farman for their critical contributions to the most successful internat

Major holes in ozone hole treaty must be addressed to avert stronger climate change and serious risks to human health, experts warn By University of Sussex - Link to story on NewsWise Newswise — A new paper, co-authored by a University of Sussex scientist, has revealed major holes in an international treaty designed to help repair the ozone layer, putting human health at risk and increasing the speed of climate change. Evidence amassed by scientists in the 1970s and 1980s sho

Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.

By Science and Security Board | Analysis - Link to story on Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists On January 23, 2020, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 100 seconds to midnight. We board members warned then that the world’s institutional and political capacity for reducing the possibility of civilization-scale catastrophe had been diminished, and the need for emergency action was urgent. In our

Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.

Panelists at MIT climate change symposium describe the state of knowledge in climate science and stress the urgent need for action.

Susan Solomon's John H. Carlson Lecture examines past environmental challenges in the context of today's fight against climate change.