{"id":714930,"date":"2022-01-28T06:19:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714930"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:19:29","slug":"peruvian-gold-rush-turns-pristine-rainforests-into-heavily-polluted-mercury-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714930","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to guess which part of the world has the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution, you probably wouldn&#8217;t pick a patch of pristine Amazonian rainforest. Yet, that&#8217;s exactly where they are.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-peruvian-gold-pristine-rainforests-heavily.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to guess which part of the world has the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution, you probably wouldn&#8217;t pick a patch of pristine Amazonian rainforest. Yet, that&#8217;s&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-714930","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\/714930","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=714930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714930\/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=714930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}