{"id":960,"date":"2017-09-16T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=960"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:31:00","slug":"international-day-for-the-preservation-of-the-ozone-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/09\/16\/international-day-for-the-preservation-of-the-ozone-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The United Nations marks today, the 16th September, as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. In the 1970&#8217;s scientists discovered that the ozone layer was under threat from certain gases, such as chlorine and bromine, which had accumulated in the atmosphere. Then, in the 1980&#8217;s, a &#8220;hole&#8221; was discovered in the ozone layer above Antarctica &#8211; the region of the earth&#8217;s atmosphere which had suffered the severest ozone depletion. Read our fact sheet below for more information on the ozone layer and why the 16th September is such an important date.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-950\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/09\/ozone-layer-fact-sheet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"3543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/09\/ozone-layer-fact-sheet.png 2083w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/09\/ozone-layer-fact-sheet-176x300.png 176w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/09\/ozone-layer-fact-sheet-768x1306.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/09\/ozone-layer-fact-sheet-602x1024.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozoneheroes.org\">www.ozoneheroes.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to learn more about the ozone layer and become an ozone hero!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations marks today, the 16th September, as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. In the 1970&#8217;s scientists discovered that the ozone layer was under threat from certain gases, such as chlorine and bromine, which had accumulated in the atmosphere. Then, in the 1980&#8217;s, a &#8220;hole&#8221; was discovered in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/09\/16\/international-day-for-the-preservation-of-the-ozone-layer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[339,16,247,248,249,250],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-earth-science","tag-environment","tag-international-day-for-the-preservation-of-the-ozone-layer","tag-ozone-layer","tag-science-fact-sheet","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}