{"id":14625,"date":"2020-02-18T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-mussels-cooked-to-death-on-new-zealand-beach-in-heatwave"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:38:28","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-mussels-cooked-to-death-on-new-zealand-beach-in-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14625","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of mussels cooked to death on New Zealand beach in heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northland residents describe \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 find as experts warn climate crisis could make it a more frequent sight<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of mussels have been cooked to death on a beach in New Zealand\u2019s North Island, with experts saying more will die as the effects of the climate crisis accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>The mass die-off in Northland was sparked by \u201can exceptional period of warm weather\u201d combined with low tides in the middle of the day, which had exposed the shellfish, said Dr Andrew Jeffs, a marine scientist from the University of Auckland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-mussels-cooked-to-death-on-new-zealand-beach-in-heatwave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northland residents describe \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 find as experts warn climate crisis could make it a more frequent sightHundreds of thousands of mussels have been cooked to death on a beach in New Zealand\u2019s North Island, with experts saying more will die a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,65,468,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions\/14626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}