{"id":87907,"date":"2022-09-07T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=87907"},"modified":"2022-09-13T23:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:26:44","slug":"a-new-method-to-assess-the-health-of-the-ozone-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/vaufien\/a-new-method-to-assess-the-health-of-the-ozone-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Method to Assess the Health of the Ozone Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the impact of ozone-depleting chemicals released into the atmosphere.\u202f The ozone layer\u202fsits in the stratosphere &#8211; between 15 km and 30 km above the Earth -\u202fand provides a shield from some of the sun\u2019s harmful ultraviolet radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Without this ozone protection, higher levels of ultraviolet radiation would\u202freach the Earth\u2019s surface and result in an increased\u202fincidence\u202fof skin cancer and eye disease as well as adversely effecting plants and crops.<\/p>\n<p>Since the late 1980s, an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol\u202fhas resulted in the phasing out of ozone-depleting chemicals, particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were used in, for example, refrigeration and air conditioning systems. As a consequence, the hole and thinning that was once seen in the ozone layer has been reducing.\u202f <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds.ac.uk\/news-environment\/news\/article\/5143\/a-new-method-to-assess-the-health-of-the-ozone-layer\">Read more at University of Leeds<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enn.com\/articles\/71100-a-new-method-to-assess-the-health-of-the-ozone-layer\">ENN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the impact of ozone-depleting chemicals released into the atmosphere.\u202f The ozone layer\u202fsits in the stratosphere &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11659,12554,34,35],"tags":[20706,24,12966,11184,758],"class_list":["post-87907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-news","category-vau-viikkokatsaus","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-assess","tag-health","tag-layer","tag-method","tag-ozone","wpcat-11659-id","wpcat-12554-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/star_sky_unsplash.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88495,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87907\/revisions\/88495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}