{"id":29728,"date":"2024-08-26T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=29728"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:21:54","slug":"the-arctic-is-a-ticking-mercury-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/08\/26\/the-arctic-is-a-ticking-mercury-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic is a ticking &quot;mercury bomb&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be an influx of silver liquid in our future. The Arctic has kept mercury deposits locked away for centuries, but global warming threatens to release these stores into the environment. Mercury can be toxic and can cause serious health consequences in high concentrations. The melting of permafrost could also lead to other ecological consequences that threaten people and the ecosystem. (<em>DEVIKA RAO, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/environment\/mercury-permafrost-arctic-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WEEK US<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our future could see an influx of silvery liquid. The Arctic has held locked-up mercury deposits for centuries, but global warming threatens to release these reserves into the environment. Mercury can be toxic and, in high concentrations, can cause serious health consequences. Melting permafrost could also lead to other ecological consequences that threaten people and the ecosystem. (DEVIKA RAO, more [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}