{"id":150912,"date":"2022-11-23T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/tonnes-of-unknown-microbes-could-be-released-as-the-glaciers-melt"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:26:43","slug":"tonnes-of-unknown-microbes-could-be-released-as-the-glaciers-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/tonnes-of-unknown-microbes-could-be-released-as-the-glaciers-melt","title":{"rendered":"Tonnes of unknown microbes could be released as the glaciers melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tonnes-of-unknown-microbes-could-be-released-as-the-glaciers-melt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of them could fertilize ecosystems, while others could have pathogenic potential.<\/p>\n<p>More and more glaciers are melting as the Earth heats up, posing a multitude of threats to humanity. From rising sea levels to increased coastal erosion, the record speed at which the world\u2019s ice sheets are melting has the potential to disrupt societies globally.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists from Aberystwyth University warn that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of microbes could leak into lakes and rivers as the world\u2019s glaciers melt due to climate change, according to an institutional press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of them could fertilize ecosystems, while others could have pathogenic potential. More and more glaciers are melting as the Earth heats up, posing a multitude of threats to humanity. From rising sea levels to increased coastal erosion, the record speed at which the world\u2019s ice sheets are melting has the potential to disrupt societies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}