{"id":8389,"date":"2023-11-09T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2023-11-09T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:00:42","slug":"greenlands-ice-sheets-have-lost-more-than-a-third-of-their-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/09\/greenlands-ice-sheets-have-lost-more-than-a-third-of-their-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest floating ice shelves in the polar ice sheet have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978. Their thinning is mainly due to rising temperatures in the surrounding ocean, which is causing the floating extensions of glaciers that flow from inside the ice sheet to melt and end up in the ocean. That&#039;s what scientists from CNRS 1 and their Danish and American colleagues have just discovered.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>in a study to be published November 7 in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em> . However, the glaciers in this area have until now been considered stable, unlike other more vulnerable areas of the polar cap, which began to weaken in the mid-1980s. These shelves, located in northern Greenland, play a vital role by acting as huge frozen \u201cdams\u201d that regulate the amount of ice spilling into the ocean. Their weakening could thus accelerate sea level rise, with Greenland already responsible for 17 % of the current level rise.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest floating ice shelves in the polar ice sheet have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978. Their thinning is mainly due to the rising temperature of the surrounding ocean, which causes the melting of floating extensions of glaciers that flow from inside the ice sheet. end up in the ocean. That&#039;s what scientists from CNRS 1 and their Danish and American colleagues have just discovered in a study, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8389","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\/8389","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=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}