{"id":1319,"date":"2015-11-24T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T02:52:46","slug":"a-line-of-dump-trucks-from-perth-to-sydney-and-back-again-how-sediment-is-killing-the-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2015\/11\/24\/a-line-of-dump-trucks-from-perth-to-sydney-and-back-again-how-sediment-is-killing-the-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A line of dump trucks from Perth to Sydney and back again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Scientists say the federal and Queensland governments will not meet their international commitments aimed at rescuing the Great Barrier Reef unless they urgently tackle soil run-off.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Andrew Brooks from the Australian Rivers Institute said six years of field research revealed that alluvial gully erosion, most typically on grazing land, was the largest land-use driven contributor of fine sediment to the reef. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-11-23\/unsoiling-the-great-barrier-reef\/6963598\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say the federal and Queensland governments will not meet their international commitments aimed at rescuing the Great Barrier Reef unless they urgently tackle soil run-off. Dr Andrew Brooks from &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2015\/11\/24\/a-line-of-dump-trucks-from-perth-to-sydney-and-back-again-how-sediment-is-killing-the-great-barrier-reef\/\" aria-label=\"&#8216;A line of dump trucks from Perth to Sydney and back again&#8217;\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}