{"id":648721,"date":"2020-03-10T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648721"},"modified":"2020-03-10T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:45:51","slug":"fresh-groundwater-flow-important-for-coastal-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648721","title":{"rendered":"Fresh groundwater flow important for coastal ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groundwater is the largest source of freshwater, one of the world&#8217;s most precious natural resources and vital for crops and drinking water. It is found under our very feet in the cracks and pores in soil, sediments and rocks. Now an international research team led by the University of G\u00f6ttingen has developed the first global computer model of groundwater flow into the world&#8217;s oceans. Their analysis shows that 20% of the world&#8217;s sensitive coastal ecosystems\u2014such as estuaries, salt marshes and coral reefs\u2014are at risk of pollutants transported by groundwater flow from the land to the sea. The research was published in Nature Communications.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-03-fresh-groundwater-important-coastal-ecosystems.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fresh groundwater flow important for coastal ecosystems<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundwater is the largest source of freshwater, one of the world&#8217;s most precious natural resources and vital for crops and drinking water. It is found under our very feet in&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-648721","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\/648721","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=648721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648721\/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=648721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}