{"id":654628,"date":"2026-09-08T04:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=845824"},"modified":"2026-09-08T04:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:30:57","slug":"sixteen-years-after-12000-tons-of-orange-peels-a-costa-rica-forest-grew-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/sixteen-years-after-12000-tons-of-orange-peels-a-costa-rica-forest-grew-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Years After 12,000 Tons of Orange Peels, a Costa Rica Forest Grew Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sixteen-years-after-12000-tons-of-orange-peels-a-costa-rica-forest-grew-back-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rain forest\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Tree biomass jumped 176% on a degraded plot inside Costa Rica\u2019s Guanacaste Conservation Area after 12,000 tonnes of orange peels were spread there in 1997. The experiment was later halted by Costa Rica\u2019s Supreme Court after a challenge from rival producer TicoFruit, but researcher Timothy Treuer\u2019s 2013 revisit found a nutrient-rich, invasive-resistant canopy where bare [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree biomass jumped 176% on a degraded plot inside Costa Rica\u2019s Guanacaste Conservation Area after 12,000 tonnes of orange peels were spread there in 1997. The experiment was later halted by Costa Rica\u2019s Supreme Court after a challenge from rival producer TicoFruit, but researcher Timothy Treuer\u2019s 2013 revisit found a nutrient-rich, invasive-resistant canopy where bare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-654628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}