{"id":367489,"date":"2017-09-01T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=54fd2a739b8c99a7473940c89017ac7c"},"modified":"2017-09-01T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:01:39","slug":"your-sunscreen-may-be-polluting-the-ocean-but-algae-could-offer-a-natural-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=367489","title":{"rendered":"Your sunscreen may be polluting the ocean \u2013 but algae could offer a natural alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 6,000-14,000 tons of sunscreen are deposited into coral reef areas of the sea every year. The chemicals we rub onto our skin might help prevent skin cancer but we&#8217;re only just beginning to understand the environmental impact of sunscreen \u2013 and the initial assessments are not looking good. But early stage research suggests that nature might provide a solution to this emerging problem if we can mimic the way that some plants and animals protect themselves from the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 6,000-14,000 tons of sunscreen are deposited into coral reef areas of the sea every year. The chemicals we rub onto our skin might help prevent skin cancer but we&#8217;re only just beginning to understand the environmental impact of sunscreen &ndash; and the initial assessments are not looking good. But early stage research suggests that nature might provide a solution to this emerging problem if we can mimic the way that some plants and animals protect themselves from the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367490,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367489\/revisions\/367490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}