{"id":3908,"date":"2026-09-08T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:43:06","slug":"toxic-red-tide-continues-to-spread-in-california-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/toxic-red-tide-continues-to-spread-in-california-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Red Tide Continues to Spread in California Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The toxic red tide off the coast of Monterey and Santa Cruz in central California has not subsided. The algae produce chondroic acid neurotoxins, which are transferred through prey species such as sardines and anchovies into the bodies of marine mammals. This area serves as a migration and foraging corridor for gray whales and humpback whales. When whales consume large quantities of contaminated fish and shrimp, they also accumulate chondrotoxic acid, which causes neurological damage, disorientation, and an increased risk of stranding; the toxin can also be passed on to calves through their mothers\u2019 milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toxic red tide off the coast of Monterey and Santa Cruz in central California has not subsided. The algae produce chondroic acid neurotoxins, which are transferred through prey species such as sardines and anchovies into the bodies of marine mammals. This area serves as a migration and foraging corridor for gray whales and humpback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}