{"id":32666,"date":"2021-05-31T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/sri-lanka-faces-disaster-burning-ship-spills-chemicals-beaches"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:48:51","slug":"sri-lanka-faces-disaster-as-burning-ship-spills-chemicals-on-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32666","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka faces disaster as burning ship spills chemicals on beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debris has killed marine life and is being seen as country\u2019s worst environmental catastrophe<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is facing the worst environmental disaster in its history after a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught fire off its coast, spilling microplastics across the country\u2019s pristine beaches and killing marine life.<\/p>\n<p>The fire on MV X-Press Pearl, a Singapore-registered ship, broke out on 20 May and has been burning ever since. The Sri Lankan navy and Indian coastguard have been trying to reduce the flames for more than 10 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/sri-lanka-faces-disaster-burning-ship-spills-chemicals-beaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debris has killed marine life and is being seen as country\u2019s worst environmental catastropheSri Lanka is facing the worst environmental disaster in its history after a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught fire off its coast, spilling microplastics acro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[65,468,64,61,674,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-oil-spills","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32666","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32666\/revisions\/32667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}