{"id":3535,"date":"2026-06-15T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:13:10","slug":"plastic-waste-surge-on-the-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/plastic-waste-surge-on-the-pacific-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Waste Surge on the Pacific Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon, ocean currents have become abnormal. Compounded by severe storms, massive amounts of marine debris\u2014including plastic and discarded fishing nets\u2014have been washed ashore along Guatemala\u2019s Pacific coast, covering several kilometers of beach with waste. Marine life is highly susceptible to accidentally ingesting this debris, posing a serious threat to their survival. Local fishing operations have been forced to shut down, and the high cost of cleanup is placing significant pressure on the coastal communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon, ocean currents have become abnormal. Compounded by severe storms, massive amounts of marine debris\u2014including plastic and discarded fishing nets\u2014have been washed ashore along Guatemala\u2019s Pacific coast, covering several kilometers of beach with waste. Marine life is highly susceptible to accidentally ingesting this debris, posing a serious threat to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":45,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","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=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}