{"id":48531,"date":"2022-09-16T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/16\/rate-of-sea-level-rise-around-new-zealand-doubles-in-past-60-years"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:54:40","slug":"rate-of-sea-level-rise-around-new-zealand-doubles-in-past-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48531","title":{"rendered":"Rate of sea level rise around New Zealand doubles in past 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change named as major driver, with up to $14bn in infrastructure at risk from higher sea levels<\/p>\n<p>Sea levels around New Zealand rose twice as fast in the past 60 years as they did in the first half of last century, with climate change flagged as the primary culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Stats NZ\u2019s recently updated coastal sea level rise indicator shows the rate doubled between 1961 and 2020, compared with the mean rate from 1901-1960, at three of the four sites monitored \u2013 Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/16\/rate-of-sea-level-rise-around-new-zealand-doubles-in-past-60-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change named as major driver, with up to $14bn in infrastructure at risk from higher sea levelsSea levels around New Zealand rose twice as fast in the past 60 years as they did in the first half of last century, with climate change flagged as t&#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":[41,2331,65,56,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531","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=48531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531\/revisions\/48532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}