{"id":721904,"date":"2022-04-21T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721904"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:01:17","slug":"from-biologically-dead-to-chart-toppingly-clean-how-the-thames-made-an-extraordinary-recovery-over-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721904","title":{"rendered":"From &#039;biologically dead&#039; to chart-toppingly clean: How the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world&#8217;s cleanest rivers running through a city. What&#8217;s even more surprising is that it reached that status just 60 years after being declared &#8220;biologically dead&#8221; by scientists at London&#8217;s Natural History Museum. Yet despite this remarkable recovery, there&#8217;s no room for complacency\u2014the Thames still faces new and increasing threats from pollution, plastic and a rising population.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-biologically-dead-chart-toppingly-thames-extraordinary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From &#8216;biologically dead&#8217; to chart-toppingly clean: How the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world&#8217;s cleanest rivers running through a city. What&#8217;s even more surprising is that it reached&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-721904","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\/721904","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=721904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721904\/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=721904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}