{"id":7580,"date":"2015-02-05T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:48","slug":"7580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=7580","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong2edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong2edit.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong2edit-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong2edit-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Along the shores of Hong Kong, a mystical blue plant is blooming and glowing in cosmic blue hues. Scientists attribute the phenomenon to Noctiluca scintillans, a plant also known as \u201csea sparkle.\u201d Don&#8217;t be fooled by the bubbly name: Sea sparkle is an aggressive reproducer that behaves like algae and can even function as a single-celled animal. Although beautiful to behold, its spread is jumpstarted by agricultural pollution in coastal areas. The neon blooms can collect and spread toxins, and they have been tied to significant waves of marine animal deaths. But by night, the enchanting blue plants gleam innocently. (<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Hong Kong &quot;Sea Sparkle&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/surreal-blue-algae-glowing-on-hong-kong-shores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7580 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Hong Kong Sea Sparkle&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong3edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong3edit.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong3edit-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hongkong3edit-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the shores of Hong Kong, a mystical blue plant is blooming and glowing in cosmic blue hues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropocene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}