{"id":585043,"date":"2026-08-15T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:16:09","slug":"south-lebanon-soil-contamination-from-israeli-hezbollah-war-state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585043\/","title":{"rendered":"South Lebanon soil contamination from Israeli-Hezbollah war : State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786756569_677_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/10553x5936+0+1\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2F3b%2F3d3395314e96961dba2f8b0d015c%2Fea07886e-5569-4771-84a3-0f6ee4294960.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Talal Darwish (right), a soil scientist who has previously mapped soil health across Lebanon, takes soil samples from the site of an airstrike in South Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>                    Fadel Itani\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Fadel Itani\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the shattered villages and scorched fields of southern Lebanon lies a quieter aftermath of war &#8211; contaminated land.  Israel&#8217;s war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon has poisoned soil and destroyed valuable ecosystems for generations to come. Soil samples of the land show high levels of heavy metals, the herbicide Glyphosate, and white phosphorus.<br \/>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talal Darwish (right), a soil scientist who has previously mapped soil health across Lebanon, takes soil samples from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-585043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}