json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["question","answer","nature","environment","pollution"],"appCategory":"question","appTitle":"What is the hole in the ozone layer?","appBody":"<p>Ozone depletion describes events of steady decrease in the amount of ozone in the earth's atmosphere and also a decrease in the stratospheric ozone around the polar regions. </p><p>The main causes of this hole in the ozone layer is due to the release of toxic gases such as CFC's into the atmosphere. They are transported by winds into the stratosphere after being released.</p><p>The ozone hole and depletion have caused aloy of concern world wide as it is a major cancer risk as well as many negative side effects of the ultraviolet rays. </p><p>The Antarctic ozone hole which is classical example. In this region, the recent ozone levels have dropped to 33 percent from the the previous records.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pksanw4cq","appParentAuthor":"kouba01","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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