{"id":254897,"date":"2025-06-21T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/caves-near-chinas-avatar-mountains-found-packed-with-decade-old-trash\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:04:32","slug":"caves-near-chinas-avatar-mountains-found-packed-with-decade-old-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/caves-near-chinas-avatar-mountains-found-packed-with-decade-old-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Caves near China\u2019s \u2018Avatar Mountains\u2019 found packed with decade-old trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/iwO3POX-4-M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Caves near China\u2019s \u2018Avatar Mountains\u2019 found packed with decade-old trash\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwO3POX-4-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A hidden environmental crisis is unfolding in ancient caves near China&#8217;s Zhangjiajie Forest Park, famed for its massive quartz-sandstone pillar formations, which are said to have inspired the floating scenery that appears in the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster \u201cAvatar.\u201d Viral social media videos showing piles of trash in the area, some reportedly dumped over a decade ago, are prompting a mass cleanup of the karst caves. #CNN #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hidden environmental crisis is unfolding in ancient caves near China&#8217;s Zhangjiajie Forest Park, famed for its massive quartz-sandstone pillar formations, which are said to have inspired the floating scenery that appears in the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster \u201cAvatar.\u201d Viral social media videos showing piles of trash in the area, some reportedly dumped over a decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":254898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[131146,131835,131112],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-254897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-crisis","tag-environmental","tag-hidden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caves near China\u2019s \u2018Avatar Mountains\u2019 found packed with decade-old trash | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Caves near China\u2019s \u2018Avatar Mountains\u2019 found packed with decade-old trash for free, here on News ISC. 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