{"id":1195,"date":"2025-02-08T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2025-02-08T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:41:13","slug":"dolphins-face-many-threats-in-taranto-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/dolphins-face-many-threats-in-taranto-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Face Many Threats in Taranto, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>February 1, 2025 &#8211; In Taranto, Italy, cetaceans such as dolphins face many threats. It is home to the Italian Navy&#8217;s largest military base and a NATO I command center, a commercial port that is still expanding, Italy&#8217;s first offshore wind power plant inaugurated in 2022, and a large refinery built by the energy company Eni Group. Studies have shown that underwater noise pollution from these activities interferes with cetaceans such as dolphins&#8217; use of sound for basic behaviors such as communicating with each other, recognizing their environment and finding food. In addition, while the impact on dolphins of Europe&#8217;s largest steel plant, Riva Steel, is not entirely clear, there is a high likelihood that pollution from the coast will have an impact on the marine environment and its inhabitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1, 2025 &#8211; In Taranto, Italy, cetaceans such as dolphins face many threats. It is home to the Italian Navy&#8217;s largest military base and a NATO I command center, a commercial port that is still expanding, Italy&#8217;s first offshore wind power plant inaugurated in 2022, and a large refinery built by the energy company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":140,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}