Skip to main content

Reset your password

Please enter the e-mail address you used to register to reset your password

Note: The verification e-mail to change your password should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it takes longer. Don't forget to check your spam folder.

If you haven't received the e-mail in 24 hours, please contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org

Registration complete

Thank you for registering with Physics World
If you'd like to change your details at any time, please visit My account

Close
Climate

Climate

Home » Environment and energy » Climate » Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction

Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction

23 Feb 2018
Pinus mugo in the French Pyrenees
Pinus mugo in the French Pyrenees
The loss of ozone may have caused the extinction many millions of years ago of most life on Earth, s

You’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering

If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading

If you do not yet have an account, please register so you can

  • Access more than 20 years of online content
  • Choose which e-mail newsletters you would like to receive

Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. He has been covering climate change since 1988
Back to Climate Climate

Read previous Cancer 'vaccine' eliminates tumours in mice

Read next Laser-induced graphene for 'edible electronics'

Discover more from Physics World

Related jobs

Related events

Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors