{"id":741048,"date":"2022-11-17T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741048"},"modified":"2022-11-17T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:51:03","slug":"the-worlds-roots-are-getting-shallower-study-provides-the-first-estimate-of-global-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741048","title":{"rendered":"The world&#039;s roots are getting shallower: Study provides the first estimate of global changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plant roots act as engineers for Earth&#8217;s surface, breaking up bedrock, transporting water and nutrients, and stabilizing landscapes. They&#8217;re so important that scientists have hypothesized that their evolution, beginning around 415 million years ago, altered landscapes and the course of Earth&#8217;s history.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-world-roots-shallower-global.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The world&#8217;s roots are getting shallower: Study provides the first estimate of global changes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant roots act as engineers for Earth&#8217;s surface, breaking up bedrock, transporting water and nutrients, and stabilizing landscapes. They&#8217;re so important that scientists have hypothesized that their evolution, beginning around&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-741048","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\/741048","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=741048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741048\/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=741048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}