{"id":749,"date":"2012-08-22T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:27:57","slug":"melting-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/melting-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/ArcticMelting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-750\" title=\"ArcticMelting\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/ArcticMelting-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/ArcticMelting-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/ArcticMelting.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Throughout the year, the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/\">National Snow &amp; Ice Data Center<\/a> in Colorado provides scientific analysis and daily image updates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.\u00a0 This research center has recently been in the news due to their <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/arcticseaicenews\/\">reporting<\/a> that the Arctic sea ice has been melting more quickly this summer, which has resulted in flooding and damage to structures.\u00a0 Their website provides interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/icelights\/\">FAQs<\/a> about sea ice and our climate, such as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/icelights\/2012\/05\/16\/what-is-causing-arctic-sea-ice-decline\/#more-747\">What is causing Arctic sea ice decline?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of: Patrick Kelley (U.S. Coast Guard) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the year, the U.S. National Snow &amp; Ice Data Center in Colorado provides scientific analysis and daily image updates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.\u00a0 This research center has recently been in the news due to their reporting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/melting-in-the-arctic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,84,99],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}