| Associated Press: The "ozone hole" over Antarctica this year has matched the record size of 11.4 million square miles, the U.N. weather agency has said. The area of the so-called hole -- a thinning in the ozone layer during the South Pole winter -- is the same as in the record year of 2000, according to measurements by NASA, said Geir Braathen, ozone specialist at the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization. But Braathen said of greater concern is that the amount of ozone gas ... |
