{"id":7093,"date":"2019-08-14T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:20:45","slug":"dangerous-toxic-algal-bloom-fears-for-loch-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/dangerous-toxic-algal-bloom-fears-for-loch-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Toxic Algal Bloom Fears For Loch Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Environmental Health officials posted official warning about swimming or consuming dangerous toxic water from Loch Watten, fears have spread that Loch Ness may soon be at risk too.<\/p><div id=\"lochn-2562604141\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/algalbloom-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7504\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toxic Algal Infestation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Professor Kettle of The Loch Ness Internet Research Project said, <em>&#8220;this type of algal infestation is something we constantly guard against. It&#8217;s nasty and it&#8217;s dangerous and could pose a serious risk to locals, visitors and Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highland.gov.uk\/news\/article\/11952\/public_warned_of_algal_bloom_presence_at_loch_watten_caithness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"official warning (opens in a new tab)\">official warning<\/a> is available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Environmental Health officials posted official warning about swimming or consuming dangerous toxic water from Loch Watten, fears have spread that Loch Ness may soon be at risk too. Professor Kettle of The Loch Ness Internet Research Project said, &#8220;this type of algal infestation is something we constantly guard against. It&#8217;s nasty and it&#8217;s dangerous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/dangerous-toxic-algal-bloom-fears-for-loch-ness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dangerous Toxic Algal Bloom Fears For Loch Ness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,182,231,233,305,320,333,420],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academic","tag-highlands","tag-loch-ness","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-project","tag-research","tag-scottish","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7565,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}