{"id":654663,"date":"2020-05-11T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654663"},"modified":"2020-05-11T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T18:18:46","slug":"el-nino-linked-decreases-in-soil-moisture-could-trigger-massive-tropical-plant-die-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654663","title":{"rendered":"El Nino-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that El Ni\u00f1o events are often associated with droughts in some of the world&#8217;s more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific, El Ni\u00f1os can in turn influence global weather patterns and tropical precipitation, and these changes can lead to massive plant die-offs if other extreme factors are also at play.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-05-el-nino-linked-decreases-soil-moisture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">El Nino-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that El Ni\u00f1o events are often associated with droughts in some of the world&#8217;s more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures 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-654663","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\/654663","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=654663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654663\/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=654663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}