{"id":3796,"date":"2026-08-12T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:24:50","slug":"monsoon-rains-sweep-through-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/monsoon-rains-sweep-through-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Rains Sweep Through Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The southwest monsoon has triggered heavy rains that have battered Manila, causing river levels in Paranaque City to rise rapidly. Plastic bags, household waste, and construction debris piled along streets and riverbanks have been swept into the rivers by flash floods, leaving the water\u2019s surface covered with a dense layer of debris. The floating debris in the river flows into Manila Bay via the water system, exacerbating plastic pollution in coastal waters, triggering eutrophication, and endangering local coral habitats and coastal fisheries. With a severe shortage of waste disposal facilities in the capital region, open-air waste dumping leads to recurring soil and water pollution every rainy season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The southwest monsoon has triggered heavy rains that have battered Manila, causing river levels in Paranaque City to rise rapidly. Plastic bags, household waste, and construction debris piled along streets and riverbanks have been swept into the rivers by flash floods, leaving the water\u2019s surface covered with a dense layer of debris. The floating debris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":61,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}