{"id":73660,"date":"2017-11-04T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ozone-hole-over-antarctica-shrinks-to-smallest-peak-since-1988"},"modified":"2017-11-04T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:22:31","slug":"ozone-hole-over-antarctica-shrinks-to-smallest-peak-since-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ozone-hole-over-antarctica-shrinks-to-smallest-peak-since-1988","title":{"rendered":"Ozone hole over Antarctica shrinks to smallest peak since 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nV2pBd0F7S4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ozone is a colorless combination of three oxygen atoms. High in the atmosphere, about 7 to 25 miles above the Earth, ozone shields Earth from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer, crop damage and other problems.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the United Nation a few years ago determined that without the 1987 treaty there would have been an extra 2 million skin cancer cases by 2030. They said overall the ozone layer is beginning to recover because of the phase-out of chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ozone-hole-antarctica-shrivels-smallest-peak\/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=59fd57da04d30138aee7eafc&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ozone-hole-antarctica-shrivels-...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozone is a colorless combination of three oxygen atoms. High in the atmosphere, about 7 to 25 miles above the Earth, ozone shields Earth from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer, crop damage and other problems. Scientists at the United Nation a few years ago determined that without the 1987 treaty there would have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-geopolitics","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}