{"id":89074,"date":"2025-07-26T16:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89074"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:05:54","slug":"are-more-sinkholes-appearing-because-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/are-more-sinkholes-appearing-because-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Are more sinkholes appearing because of climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2CFXcOGToZpseDvsUO\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nClimate change is increasing the frequency of sinkholes by intensifying extreme weather events, according to research. &#8220;Droughts lower the water table, removing subterranean support for the land above.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is increasing the frequency of sinkholes by intensifying extreme weather events, according to research. &#8220;Droughts lower the water table, removing subterranean support for the land above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[207,37917],"class_list":["post-89074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-climate-change","tag-sinkholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89076,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89074\/revisions\/89076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}