{"id":2873,"date":"2026-01-14T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:39:50","slug":"deadly-cracks-appear-in-arctic-permafrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/deadly-cracks-appear-in-arctic-permafrost\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Cracks Appear in Arctic Permafrost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Science journal reports accelerated melting in Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI) ice zone, Canada&#8217;s north. Since 1997, annual thawing has advanced by 5 days each year, depriving multi-year ice of its \u201crefuge.\u201dData: Once considered the Arctic&#8217;s most stable ice zone, this region is now \u201cbecoming a graveyard for multi-year ice,\u201d threatening the survival of polar species like polar bears. The Arctic is warming at 2-3 times the global average rate, and the accelerated melting of ice sheets is driving sea level rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science journal reports accelerated melting in Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI) ice zone, Canada&#8217;s north. Since 1997, annual thawing has advanced by 5 days each year, depriving multi-year ice of its \u201crefuge.\u201dData: Once considered the Arctic&#8217;s most stable ice zone, this region is now \u201cbecoming a graveyard for multi-year ice,\u201d threatening the survival of polar species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":108,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}