{"id":766233,"date":"2023-09-20T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766233"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:00:01","slug":"ancient-amazonians-intentionally-created-fertile-dark-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766233","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile &#039;dark earth&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon&#8217;s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the forested vegetation, particularly in the hilly uplands, are surprisingly infertile. Much of the Amazon&#8217;s soil is acidic and low in nutrients, making it notoriously difficult to farm.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-ancient-amazonians-intentionally-fertile-dark.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile &#8216;dark earth&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon&#8217;s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the&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-766233","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\/766233","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=766233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766233\/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=766233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}