{"id":28122,"date":"2018-10-23T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28122"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:56:25","slug":"pt-facts-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pt-facts-10\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PT Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/cockroaches-of-the-ocean-are-eating-away-californias-underwater-forests\/article25292145.ece?utm_source=tp-life&amp;utm_medium=sticky_footer\"><strong>Cockroaches of the ocean\u2019 are eating away California\u2019s underwater forests<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The purple urchins are commonly being called as \u2018Cockroaches of the ocean\u2019 owing to the dangers they pose to the danger to the underwater kelp forests.<\/li>\n<li>The climate change has helped trigger a 60-fold explosion of purple urchins off Northern California\u2019s coast in Albion Cove.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover the disappearance of predators of purple urchins, e.g. Sunflower starfish and Sea otters have further increased its numbers.<\/li>\n<li>The kelp forests have declined by 93 percent in Northern California, due to purple urchins.<\/li>\n<li>The Tasmania kelp forests have already succumbed to a purple urchin outbreak.<\/li>\n<li>The purple urchin pose dangers as Kelp forests exist along the cooler coastlines of every continent.<\/li>\n<li>The underwater Kelp forests absorb carbon emissions and provide critical habitat and food for a wide range of species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/an-african-islands-troubled-waters\/article25290324.ece\">An African island\u2019s troubled waters<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For over a decade, Migingo has been a source of tension between Uganda and Kenya, who have been unable to decide to whom it really belongs.<\/li>\n<li>Migingo Island rises out of the waters of Lake Victoria (largest lake in Africa and the largest Tropical Lake in the whole world)<\/li>\n<li>The island is densely populated island and barely a quarter of a hectare large.<\/li>\n<li>The local Kenyan politicians have called on Nairobi to ask the International Court of Justice to intervene and make a decision on whom the island belongs to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT Facts \u2018Cockroaches of the ocean\u2019 are eating away California\u2019s underwater forests The purple urchins are commonly being called as \u2018Cockroaches of the ocean\u2019 owing to the dangers they pose to the danger to the underwater kelp forests. The climate change has helped trigger a 60-fold explosion of purple urchins off Northern California\u2019s coast in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pt-facts-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PT Facts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28122","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}