{"id":420,"date":"2019-09-27T04:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=420"},"modified":"2019-09-27T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:45:54","slug":"tree-planting-drones-for-firing-seed-missiles-into-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/09\/27\/tree-planting-drones-for-firing-seed-missiles-into-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree-planting Drones for Firing &#8220;Seed Missiles&#8221; into the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM-1024x756.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-5.42.56-AM.png 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In September 2018, a project in Myanmar used drones to fire \u201cseed missiles\u201d into remote areas of the country where trees were not growing. Less than a year later, thousands of those seed missiles have sprouted into 20-inch mangrove saplings that could literally be a case study in how technology can be used to innovate our way out of the climate change crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/megaphone.upworthy.com\/p\/tree-planting-drones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>More:\u00a0These tree-planting drones are firing \u2018seed missiles\u2019 into the ground. Less than a year later, they\u2019re already 20 inches tall.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In September 2018, a project in Myanmar used drones to fire \u201cseed missiles\u201d into remote areas of the country where trees were not growing. Less than a year later, thousands of those seed missiles have sprouted into 20-inch mangrove <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/09\/27\/tree-planting-drones-for-firing-seed-missiles-into-the-ground\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}