{"id":3974,"date":"2026-09-22T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:02:37","slug":"fuel-leak-on-a-tourist-cruise-ship-in-egypts-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/fuel-leak-on-a-tourist-cruise-ship-in-egypts-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Leak on a Tourist Cruise Ship in Egypt\u2019s Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fuel leak occurred in the fuel tank of a tourist cruise ship in the Gurdaiga resort area of Egypt\u2019s Red Sea due to a valve malfunction. Approximately 3 metric tons of heavy fuel oil spilled into the sea, forming a brown oil slick about 4 kilometers long, which is drifting toward the coral reef nature reserve with the wind. The Red Sea coral reefs are a globally significant tropical marine ecosystem; oil contamination can cause the death of coral polyps and threaten the survival of tropical fish, sea turtles, and other reef-dwelling organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel leak occurred in the fuel tank of a tourist cruise ship in the Gurdaiga resort area of Egypt\u2019s Red Sea due to a valve malfunction. Approximately 3 metric tons of heavy fuel oil spilled into the sea, forming a brown oil slick about 4 kilometers long, which is drifting toward the coral reef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}