{"id":9426,"date":"2016-12-10T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2016-12-10T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T18:35:49","slug":"drought-is-damaging-californias-giant-sequoias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/drought-is-damaging-californias-giant-sequoias\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drought is damaging California&#8217;s giant sequoias&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported this week that in spite of the giant sequoias appearing to be almost indestructible, they are finding many trees are dying from the prolonged drought that has plagued California that past few years. \u00a0If it is too dry, tiny bubbles form in the tree sap, forming what are like embolisms in humans, starving the tree. \u00a0You can read about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/drought-is-damaging-californias-giant-sequoias\/2016\/12\/09\/96cee950-bbd0-11e6-ac85-094a21c44abc_story.html?utm_term=.233e6b1f1c8b&amp;wpisrc=nl_rainbow&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9427\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio-103x138.jpg 103w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/General_Sherman_Sequoia_-_World_Largest_Tree_by_Volume_-_panoramio.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported this week that in spite of the giant sequoias appearing to be almost indestructible, they are finding many trees are dying from the prolonged drought that has plagued California that past few years. \u00a0If it is too dry, tiny bubbles form in the tree sap, forming what are like embolisms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":9427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}