{"id":758119,"date":"2023-06-15T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758119"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:10:01","slug":"many-urban-waterways-were-once-waste-dumps-despite-restoration-efforts-theres-more-to-do-to-bring-nature-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758119","title":{"rendered":"Many urban waterways were once waste dumps. Despite restoration efforts, there&#039;s more to do to bring nature back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 19th century, many of Australia&#8217;s urban creeks and rivers were in poor shape. Melbourne&#8217;s major river, the Maribyrnong, was full of waste from abattoirs, tanneries and factories.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-urban-waterways-dumps-efforts-nature.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Many urban waterways were once waste dumps. Despite restoration efforts, there&#8217;s more to do to bring nature back<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 19th century, many of Australia&#8217;s urban creeks and rivers were in poor shape. Melbourne&#8217;s major river, the Maribyrnong, was full of waste from abattoirs, tanneries and factories.&#013; &#013;&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-758119","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\/758119","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=758119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758119\/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=758119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}