{"id":120232,"date":"2021-08-14T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=120232"},"modified":"2021-08-14T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T09:18:28","slug":"sunscreens-damage-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/sunscreens-damage-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunscreens damage corals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Which country has recently banned sunscreens?<\/strong><br>(a) Thailand<br>(b) Bhutan<br>(c) India<br>(d) Pakistan<br><strong>Answer : (a)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thailand recently banned sunscreen from its marine national parks.<\/li><li>According to Thailand\u2019s Department of Conservation, four ingredients (Oxybenzone, Octinoxate, 4-methyl benzylidene camphor, or Butylparaben) commonly found in sun creams have been shown to kill coral larvae, impede coral reproduction and cause reef bleaching.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAY HEED TO:<\/strong><br>Sunscreens contain hazardous chemicals like Oxybenzone, Benzophenone-1, Benzophenone-8, OD-PABA, 4-Methyl benzylidene camphor, 3-Benzylidene camphor, nano-Titanium dioxide, nano-Zinc oxide, Octinoxate, Octocrylene, that negatively affect marine life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY: AMIT GUPTA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/environment\/sunscreens-damage-corals-and-this-should-bother-india-too-78328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/environment\/sunscreens-damage-corals-and-this-should-bother-india-too-78328<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Which country has recently banned sunscreens?(a) Thailand(b) Bhutan(c) India(d) PakistanAnswer : (a)Related Facts: Thailand recently banned sunscreen from its marine national parks. According to Thailand\u2019s Department of Conservation, four ingredients (Oxybenzone, Octinoxate, 4-methyl benzylidene camphor, or Butylparaben) commonly found in sun creams have been shown to kill coral larvae, impede coral reproduction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":120233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-120232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120234,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120232\/revisions\/120234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}