{"id":8940,"date":"2016-11-02T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2016-11-02T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:02:14","slug":"blowing-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/blowing-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blowing in the wind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some new research at the University of Georgia indicates that sands from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic, can do more than suppress hurricane formation. \u00a0Researchers there have\u00a0found that a genus of marine bacteria called Vibrio feed off the Saharan dust, leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful pathogen in ocean surface water. \u00a0Vibrio in seafood is the cause of a number of related food poisoning diseases; \u00a0in the U.S., Vibrio causes an estimated 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u00a0You can read more about this at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ugaresearch.uga.edu\/2016\/10\/25\/blowing-in-the-wind\/\">https:\/\/ugaresearch.uga.edu\/2016\/10\/25\/blowing-in-the-wind\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pests and pathogens are also expected to increase due to the flooding from Hurricane Matthew in parts of the Southeast. \u00a0You can read more about that in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2016\/11\/floodwaters-recede-georgia-flooded-areas-may-see-more-pests\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=c97638fe42-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-c97638fe42-296638373\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/Dust-800x455-720x405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8941\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/Dust-800x455-720x405-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dust-800x455-720x405\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/Dust-800x455-720x405-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/Dust-800x455-720x405-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/Dust-800x455-720x405.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some new research at the University of Georgia indicates that sands from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic, can do more than suppress hurricane formation. \u00a0Researchers there have\u00a0found that a genus of marine bacteria called Vibrio feed off the Saharan dust, leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful pathogen in ocean surface water. \u00a0Vibrio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8943,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}