{"id":6293,"date":"2016-03-04T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2016-03-04T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:40:28","slug":"florida-coastal-environments-are-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/florida-coastal-environments-are-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Florida coastal environments are collapsing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em> published a sobering article today on the collapse of ecosystems along Florida&#8217;s coastline. \u00a0The story details three separate regions in the state and the crippling impacts caused by chronic pollution, feeble drainage, recent drought and the impacts of El Ni\u00f1o downpours this winter on the health of the estuaries. \u00a0Impacts also include the decline of local communities who depend on fishing and related industries in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/environment\/os-florida-water-catastrophe-statewide-20160304-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/environment\/os-florida-water-catastrophe-statewide-20160304-story.html<\/a>\u00a0and see a photo gallery by Red Huber.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6294\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6294\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/os-indianriveralgaeinvasion101-jpg-20160303-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Sentinel published a sobering article today on the collapse of ecosystems along Florida&#8217;s coastline. \u00a0The story details three separate regions in the state and the crippling impacts caused by chronic pollution, feeble drainage, recent drought and the impacts of El Ni\u00f1o downpours this winter on the health of the estuaries. \u00a0Impacts also include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","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=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}