{"id":223760,"date":"2023-01-25T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223760"},"modified":"2023-02-25T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T06:36:18","slug":"why-are-corals-in-thailand-getting-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-are-corals-in-thailand-getting-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are corals in Thailand getting destroyed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Why are corals in Thailand getting destroyed?<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>23rd January 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cientists found that corals of eastern Thailand are getting affected by <strong>Yellow band Diseas<\/strong>e which is killing corals over vast stretches of the sea floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Yellow band Disease?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yellow-band disease is named for the colour it turns corals before destroying them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was first spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to reefs in the Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no cure for the disease. The disease&#8217;s impact cannot be reversed, unlike the effects of coral bleaching. This means that when the coral is infected with this disease, it just dies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists believe overfishing, pollution and rising water temperatures because of climate change may be making the reefs more vulnerable to yellow-band disease.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhy are corals in Thailand getting destroyed?\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd January 2023. What is the News? Scientists found that corals of eastern Thailand are getting affected by Yellow band Disease which is killing corals over vast stretches of the sea floor. What is Yellow&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-are-corals-in-thailand-getting-destroyed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are corals in Thailand getting destroyed?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-223760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704019382},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}