{
  "id": 19318069,
  "title": "How did these shrines survive a tsunami?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/how-did-these-shrines-survive-a-tsunami",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T09:02:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/how-did-these-shrines-survive-a-tsunami/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When the 2011 tsunami devastated Japan’s coast, patches of forest were left standing amid the destruction. Many surrounded Shinto shrines, ancient chinju-no-mori, or “guardian forests”, that appeared to protected them when disaster struck. Could these deeply rooted forests offer a natural defence against future tsunamis?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}