{"id":784638,"date":"2026-07-07T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:10:09","slug":"why-central-australia-turning-green-is-fueling-an-invasive-weed-i-sbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784638\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Central Australia \u2018turning green\u2019 is fueling an invasive weed I SBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why Central Australia \u2018turning green\u2019 is fueling an invasive weed<\/p>\n<p>Published 7 July 2026, 9:07 am<\/p>\n<p>Record rainfall in Australia&#8217;s outback this year has transformed a usually red desert landscape into a green oasis. The sight can even be seen from space, but while it&#8217;s welcomed by some, environmentalists and Traditional Owners say in this instance green is not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Central Australia \u2018turning green\u2019 is fueling an invasive weed Published 7 July 2026, 9:07 am Record rainfall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-784638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}