Is Your Sunscreen Kuuraya Coral Reefs?

Ko sunscreen yako inouraya coral reef here? Mhinduro ingangove, kunze kwekunge watova sunscreen- reef savvy, hongu. Mushure memakumi emakore ekutsvagisa kugadzira sunscreens inoshanda zvakanyanya, zvinozoitika kuti makemikari akagadzirirwa zvakanyanya kukudzivirira kubva kune inorema dosi yekupisa mwaranzi uye inogona kuve kenza yeganda ine chepfu kune makorari reef. Ingori shoma yemamwe makemikari inokwana kuita kuti makorari aite bleach, kurasikirwa nesymbiotic algal simba sosi uye kuve nyore kutapukirwa nehutachiona.

Mazuva ano mafuta ekupisa zuva ndeezvikamu zviviri zvikuru: zvemuviri nemakemikari. Mishonga yezuva yepanyama ine tuminerari tunoita senhovo inobvisa mwaranzi yezuva. Kemikari sunscreens inoshandisa synthetic compounds inotora UV chiedza isati yasvika paganda.

Dambudziko nderekuti maprotectors aya anosuka mumvura. Semuyenzaniso, kune vega vega 10,000 vashanyi vanonakidzwa nemafungu, anenge makirogiramu mana emamineral particles anogezera mumahombekombe zuva rega rega.¹ Izvi zvingaite sezvidiki, asi zvicherwa izvi zvinokonzeresa kugadzirwa kwehydrogen peroxide, inonyanyozivikanwa yekuchenesa mvura, pakusangana kwakakwira zvekukuvadza zvipenyu zvemugungwa.

Chimwe chezvinhu zvakakosha mumakemikari akawanda ezuva ndeye oxybenzone, mamorekuru ekugadzira anozivikanwa kuva ane chepfu kumakorari, algae, urchins dzegungwa, hove nemhuka dzinoyamwisa. Donhwe rimwe chete remukomboni uyu mumarita anopfuura mamirioni mana emvura rinokwana kuisa zvipenyu mungozi.

Inofungidzirwa matani 14,000 ezuva rinotendwa kuti rinoiswa mumakungwa gore negore nekukuvara kukuru kunowanikwa munzvimbo dzakakurumbira dzemvura dzakadai seHawaii neCaribbean.

Muna 2015, iyo isingabatsiri Haereticus Environmental Laboratory yakaongorora Trunk Bay beach paSt. John, USVI, uko vanhu vanosvika zviuru zvishanu vanoshambira zuva nezuva. Inofungidzirwa kupfuura 5,000 mapaundi ezuva akaiswa pareef gore negore.

Mugore rimwe chetero, zvakaona kuti avhareji ye412 mapaundi ezuva akaiswa zuva nezuva pareef kuHanauma Bay, nzvimbo yakakurumbira yekusvuta nyoka muOahu iyo inokwevera avhareji ye2,600 vanoshambira pazuva.

Zvimwe zvinodzivirira mu sunscreens zvinogonawo kuva zvine chepfu kune matombo uye vanhu. Maparabens akadai seanowanzo shandiswa methyl paraben uye butyl paraben fungicides uye anti-bacterial agents anowedzera hupenyu hwesherufu yechigadzirwa. Phenoxyethanol pakutanga yakashandiswa sehove huru yekurapisa.

Nyika yezvitsuwa zvePacific yePalau ndiyo yaive nyika yekutanga kurambidza "reef-toxic" sunscreen. Yakasainwa mumutemo muna Gumiguru 2018, mutemo unorambidza kutengeswa nekushandiswa kwemafuta ekudzivirira zuva ane chero gumi akarambidzwa zvinhu, kusanganisira oxybenzone. Vashanyi vachaunza mafuta ekuzora zuva rakarambidzwa munyika vachatorwa, uye vemabhizimisi vanenge vachitengesa zvinhu izvi vachabhadhariswa faindi inosvika chiuru chemadhora. Mutemo unotanga kushanda muna 10.

Musi waChivabvu 1, Hawaii yakapasisa bhiri rekurambidza kutengeswa nekugoverwa kwemafuta ezuva ane makemikari oxybenzone uye octinoxate. Mitemo mitsva yekuHawaii yekudzivirira zuva ichatanga kushanda Ndira 1, 2021.

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Zvipfeko, zvakaita sehembe, ngowani, bhurugwa, zvinogona kudzivirira ganda rako kubva mukukuvadza UV mwaranzi. Amburera inogonawo kukudzivirira kubva pakutsva nezuva kwakashata. Ronga zuva rako uchitenderedza zuva. Enda kunze mangwanani-ngwanani kana masikati zuva radzikira mudenga.

Asi kana iwe uchiri kutsvaga iyo tan, maitiro ekushanda kuburikidza ne sunscreen maze?

Kutanga, kanganwa aerosols. Mishonga yemakemikari inodzingwa ndeye microscopic, inopinzwa mumapapu, uye yakaparadzirwa nemhepo mukati menharaunda.

Chechipiri, funga nezvezvigadzirwa zvinosanganisira mineral sunblocks ine zinc oxide uye titanium dioxide. Vanofanira kunge vari "vasiri-nano" muhukuru kuti vaonekwe sereef-yakachengeteka. Kana ari pasi pe100 nanometers, makirimu anogona kumwiwa nemakorari. Tarisa zvakare rondedzero yezvigadzirwa zveimwe yezvichengetedzo zvatotaurwa.

Chechitatu, shanyira webhusaiti ye Iyo Safe Sunscreen Council. Uyu mubatanidzwa wemakambani ane chinangwa chakagovaniswa chekudzidza nyaya iyi, kusimudzira ruzivo mukati meindasitiri yekuchengeta ganda nevatengi uye kutsigira kusimudzira uye kutorwa kwezvinhu zvakachengeteka zvevanhu nepasi.

¹Makirogiramu mana anenge makirogiramu mapfumbamwe uye anenge huremu hwehoridhe yako ham kana turkey.