{"id":80774,"date":"2018-07-20T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cloud-brightening-sun-shields-to-save-barrier-reef"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:42:25","slug":"cloud-brightening-sun-shields-to-save-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cloud-brightening-sun-shields-to-save-barrier-reef","title":{"rendered":"Cloud brightening, \u2018sun shields\u2019 to save Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cloud-brightening-sun-shields-to-save-barrier-reef.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia announced plans Friday to explore concepts such as firing salt into clouds and covering swathes of water with a thin layer of film in a bid to save the embattled Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n<p>The UNESCO World Heritage-listed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/reef\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reef<\/a>, about the size of Japan or Italy, is reeling from two straight years of bleaching as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sea+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sea temperatures<\/a> rise because of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/climate+change\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have warned that the 2,300-kilometre (1,400-mile) long area could have suffered irreparable damage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-cloud-brightening-sun-shields-barrier.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-cloud-brightening-sun-shields-barrier.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia announced plans Friday to explore concepts such as firing salt into clouds and covering swathes of water with a thin layer of film in a bid to save the embattled Great Barrier Reef. The UNESCO World Heritage-listed reef, about the size of Japan or Italy, is reeling from two straight years of bleaching as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80774","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}