{"id":201846,"date":"2024-12-18T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasa-finds-rains-timing-is-a-game-changer-for-plants-worldwide"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:12:23","slug":"nasa-finds-rains-timing-is-a-game-changer-for-plants-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasa-finds-rains-timing-is-a-game-changer-for-plants-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"NASA Finds Rain\u2019s Timing Is a Game-Changer for Plants Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyYFLDqQb2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A NASA-led study reveals that the pattern of rainfall throughout the year\u2014specifically the frequency and intensity of rain events\u2014is nearly as significant to global vegetation health as the total amount of annual rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>The research indicates that less frequent but heavier rainfalls can benefit plants in arid regions like the U.S. Southwest, while potentially harming those in wetter ecosystems such as the Central American rainforests due to longer intervals of dryness.<\/p>\n<p>Impact of rainfall patterns on global vegetation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA-led study reveals that the pattern of rainfall throughout the year\u2014specifically the frequency and intensity of rain events\u2014is nearly as significant to global vegetation health as the total amount of annual rainfall. The research indicates that less frequent but heavier rainfalls can benefit plants in arid regions like the U.S. Southwest, while potentially harming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201846","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=201846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}