{"id":225498,"date":"2025-11-20T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ancient-bog-growth-reveals-shifting-southern-hemisphere-winds-15000-years-ago"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:31:11","slug":"ancient-bog-growth-reveals-shifting-southern-hemisphere-winds-15000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ancient-bog-growth-reveals-shifting-southern-hemisphere-winds-15000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Ancient bog growth reveals shifting Southern Hemisphere winds 15,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-bog-growth-reveals-shifting-southern-hemisphere-winds-15000-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have revealed that ancient bogs in the Southern Hemisphere hold clues to a major shift in Earth\u2019s climate thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looking at peatlands have discovered that sudden shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago triggered a massive growth of the swamps.<\/p>\n<p>Geo-experts have never fully understood what caused the bogs to form across the Southern Hemisphere after the last Ice Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have revealed that ancient bogs in the Southern Hemisphere hold clues to a major shift in Earth\u2019s climate thousands of years ago. Researchers looking at peatlands have discovered that sudden shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago triggered a massive growth of the swamps. Geo-experts have never fully understood what caused the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225498","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}