{"id":525348,"date":"2010-04-13T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/canadian-devon-island-ice-cap-is-shrinking\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:00:49","slug":"canadian-devon-island-ice-cap-is-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525348","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Devon Island Ice Cap is Shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/800px-Wff_devon_island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5628\" title=\"800px-Wff_devon_island\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/800px-Wff_devon_island.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>According to almost 50 years of data the Devon Island ice cap in the Canadian High Arctic is thinning and shrinking.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A paper published in the March edition of <em>Arctic<\/em>, the journal of the University of Calgary&#8217;s Arctic Institute of North America, reports the substantial loss of mass, ice volume and area each year since 1961 of the Devon Island ice cap.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that between 1961 and 1985 the ice cap both grew and shrank, signifying an overall loss of mass. However from 1985 onwards scientists began to notice a steady decline in the volume and area of ice covering one of the largest ice masses in the Canadian High Arctic at approximately 14,400 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>This slow death has been evidenced in other ice caps and large sheets of ice the world over. What begins as a couple of years with warmer summers starts a domino effect that is almost irreversible. <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/canadian-devon-island-ice-cap-is-shrinking\/#more-5627\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to almost 50 years of data the Devon Island ice cap in the Canadian High Arctic is thinning and shrinking. A paper published in the March edition of Arctic, the journal of the University of Calgary&#8217;s Arctic Institute of North America, reports the substantial loss of mass, ice volume and area each year since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}