{"id":200995,"date":"2024-12-08T01:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-arctic-could-be-functionally-ice-free-in-just-a-few-years"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:24:38","slug":"the-arctic-could-be-functionally-ice-free-in-just-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-arctic-could-be-functionally-ice-free-in-just-a-few-years","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic Could Be Functionally Ice-Free in Just a Few Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-arctic-could-be-functionally-ice-free-in-just-a-few-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Arctic is likely to become \u201cice-free\u201d by midcentury\u2014and could pass that grim milestone much sooner\u2014unless much more is done to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/chelsea-harvey\/\">Chelsea Harvey<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/e-e-news\/\"><i>E&amp;E News<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>CLIMATEWIRE |<\/b> By the end of the decade, the Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day on record \u2014 even with modest levels of global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arctic is likely to become \u201cice-free\u201d by midcentury\u2014and could pass that grim milestone much sooner\u2014unless much more is done to combat climate change. By Chelsea Harvey &amp; E&amp;E News CLIMATEWIRE | By the end of the decade, the Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day on record \u2014 even with modest levels of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200995","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}