{"id":186543,"date":"2024-04-01T06:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/when-trees-fall-mercury-rises-unveiling-a-hidden-environmental-threat"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:25:40","slug":"when-trees-fall-mercury-rises-unveiling-a-hidden-environmental-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/when-trees-fall-mercury-rises-unveiling-a-hidden-environmental-threat","title":{"rendered":"When Trees Fall, Mercury Rises: Unveiling a Hidden Environmental Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-trees-fall-mercury-rises-unveiling-a-hidden-environmental-threat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists quantify a previously overlooked driver of human-related mercury emissions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest to the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, acts as a sink that removes the toxic pollutant from the air. However, if the current rate of deforestation remains unchanged or accelerates, the researchers estimate that net mercury emissions will keep increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists quantify a previously overlooked driver of human-related mercury emissions. About 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study. The world\u2019s vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest to the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, acts as a sink that removes the toxic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}