{"id":200606,"date":"2024-12-02T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ghost-lake-returns-after-130-years-buries-94000-acres-of-farmland"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:25:20","slug":"ghost-lake-returns-after-130-years-buries-94000-acres-of-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ghost-lake-returns-after-130-years-buries-94000-acres-of-farmland","title":{"rendered":"Ghost lake returns after 130 years, buries 94,000 acres of farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ghost-lake-returns-after-130-years-buries-94000-acres-of-farmland.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in about 130 years, Tulare Lake reappeared in California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley, stirring both wonder and concern among locals and experts alike as it submerged almost 100,000 acres of privately owned farmland.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian Underhill, a researcher formerly at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Northeastern University<\/a>, has been studying this unexpected phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTulare Lake was the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River. It\u2019s really difficult to imagine that now,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in about 130 years, Tulare Lake reappeared in California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley, stirring both wonder and concern among locals and experts alike as it submerged almost 100,000 acres of privately owned farmland. Vivian Underhill, a researcher formerly at Northeastern University, has been studying this unexpected phenomenon. \u201cTulare Lake was the largest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200606","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}