{"id":18514,"date":"2019-12-07T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18514"},"modified":"2019-12-07T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:13:51","slug":"severe-drought-almost-dries-up-victoria-falls-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/12\/severe-drought-almost-dries-up-victoria-falls-in-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe drought almost dries up Victoria Falls in southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not traveled to Africa yet, but it is on my bucket list. I saw two articles today describing the extreme drought which is affecting southern Africa. The world-famous Victoria Falls, which lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is down to just a trickle. You can see some pictures and read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/12\/05\/world-famous-victoria-falls-dries-devastating-drought-11274611\/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter&amp;fbclid=IwAR2RDA2SLaip_B_TfFe6CoNAbCXux_7e9yp-UBne6kJNliO_wu7ao-emlI0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18515\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/12\/victoria-falls-in-drought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18515\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/12\/victoria-falls-in-drought-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/12\/victoria-falls-in-drought-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/12\/victoria-falls-in-drought-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/12\/victoria-falls-in-drought.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not traveled to Africa yet, but it is on my bucket list. I saw two articles today describing the extreme drought which is affecting southern Africa. The world-famous Victoria Falls, which lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is down to just a trickle. You can see some pictures and read more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":18515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18516,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions\/18516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}