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General Knowledge · Q343

Environmental Science

Competitive Exams · General Knowledge · question 343

Q343

Ozone hole was first discovered in

A.
Africa
B.
Antarctica
Answer
C.
India
D.
Europe

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The discovery of the annual depletion of ozone above the Antarctic was first announced in a paper by Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin which appeared in Nature in May 1985. Later, NASA scientists re-analyzed their satellite data and found that the whole of the Antarctic was affected.