{"id":47855,"date":"2022-08-26T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T05:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/mount-ruapehu-ski-resort-new-zealand-warming-climate-hits-snow-season-turoa-whakapapa"},"modified":"2022-08-26T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T05:47:18","slug":"third-of-staff-laid-off-at-major-new-zealand-ski-field-as-warm-winter-leaves-slopes-barren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47855","title":{"rendered":"Third of staff laid off at major New Zealand ski field as warm winter leaves slopes barren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operator at North Island\u2019s Mount Ruapehu lays off 130 people, with expert saying climate crisis at least partly to blame for poor snow season<\/p>\n<p>An unseasonably warm and wet winter, brought on in part by climate change, has left one of New Zealand\u2019s most popular skiing spots barren and rocky during peak season, forcing the operator of its two main ski fields to lay off a third of its staff and temporarily close a site.<\/p>\n<p>Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, which runs the T\u016broa and Whakapapa ski areas on the North Island\u2019s Mount Ruapehu, announced it would lay off about 130 staff, mainly at T\u016broa, which will close until further notice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/mount-ruapehu-ski-resort-new-zealand-warming-climate-hits-snow-season-turoa-whakapapa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operator at North Island\u2019s Mount Ruapehu lays off 130 people, with expert saying climate crisis at least partly to blame for poor snow seasonAn unseasonably warm and wet winter, brought on in part by climate change, has left one of New Zealand\u2019s most p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"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":[41,2331,65,760,56,2025,1791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-mountains","category-new-zealand","category-skiing","category-snow"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855","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\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47856,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855\/revisions\/47856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}