{"id":228059,"date":"2025-12-30T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-greenland-glacier-is-cracking-open-and-scientists-are-watching-it-drain-in-real-time"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:09:31","slug":"a-greenland-glacier-is-cracking-open-and-scientists-are-watching-it-drain-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-greenland-glacier-is-cracking-open-and-scientists-are-watching-it-drain-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"A Greenland Glacier Is Cracking Open \u2014 and Scientists Are Watching It Drain in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-greenland-glacier-is-cracking-open-and-scientists-are-watching-it-drain-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland\u2019s 79\u00b0N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and hidden channels may be pushing the glacier into an unfamiliar and potentially unstable state. Since the mid-1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has steadily lost mass, and only thr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland\u2019s 79\u00b0N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and hidden channels may be pushing the glacier into an unfamiliar and potentially unstable state. Since the mid-1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has steadily lost mass, and only thr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228059","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}