{"id":44527,"date":"2022-05-16T14:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/bleached-sea-sponges-found-in-new-zealand-waters-for-first-time"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:29:57","slug":"bleached-sea-sponges-found-in-new-zealand-waters-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44527","title":{"rendered":"Bleached sea sponges found in New Zealand waters for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme ocean temperatures blamed for turning sea sponges white in more than a dozen sites on southern coastline<\/p>\n<p>Sea sponges off New Zealand\u2019s southern coastline have been found bleached bone-white for the first time, following extreme ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists from Victoria University of Wellington were alarmed to discover the sponges, which are typically a rich chocolate brown, were bleached in more than a dozen sites near Breaksea Sound and Doubtful Sound in Fiordland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/bleached-sea-sponges-found-in-new-zealand-waters-for-first-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme ocean temperatures blamed for turning sea sponges white in more than a dozen sites on southern coastlineSea sponges off New Zealand\u2019s southern coastline have been found bleached bone-white for the first time, following extreme ocean temperature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,2331,65,468,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44527","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44527\/revisions\/44528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}