{"id":280468,"date":"2026-02-04T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:42:45","slug":"chinas-desert-solar-farms-could-transform-local-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280468\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s desert solar farms could transform local ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tChina&#8217;s desert solar farms could transform local ecosystems &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>January 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GaryKavanagh.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem \u00a9 GaryKavanagh<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s desert solar farms could transform local ecosystems &#8211; Futura-Sciences January 28, 2026 3 min China confirms that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[135649,246,61,60,135650,82,135651],"class_list":["post-280468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-desert-ecosystems","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-renewable-energy-research","tag-science","tag-solar-energy-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}