{"id":646366,"date":"2020-02-13T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646366"},"modified":"2020-02-13T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:38:09","slug":"research-identifies-potential-cause-of-minamata-mercury-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646366","title":{"rendered":"Research identifies potential cause of Minamata mercury poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most horrific environmental disasters\u2014the 1950 and 60s mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan\u2014may have been caused by a previously unstudied form of mercury discharged directly from a chemical factory, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has found.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-potential-minamata-mercury-poisoning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Research identifies potential cause of Minamata mercury poisoning<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most horrific environmental disasters\u2014the 1950 and 60s mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan\u2014may have been caused by a previously unstudied form of mercury discharged directly from a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}