{"id":228167,"date":"2026-01-01T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/glacier-loss-to-accelerate-with-up-to-4000-disappearing-each-year-by-2050s"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:05:35","slug":"glacier-loss-to-accelerate-with-up-to-4000-disappearing-each-year-by-2050s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/glacier-loss-to-accelerate-with-up-to-4000-disappearing-each-year-by-2050s","title":{"rendered":"Glacier loss to accelerate, with up to 4,000 disappearing each year by 2050s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glacier-loss-to-accelerate-with-up-to-4000-disappearing-each-year-by-2050s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Government action on climate change could determine whether the world loses 2,000 or 4,000 glaciers annually by the middle of the century, according to the research.<\/p>\n<p>A few degrees could be the difference between preserving almost half of the world\u2019s glaciers in 2100\u2014or fewer than 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday. Government action on climate change could determine whether the world loses 2,000 or 4,000 glaciers annually by the middle of the century, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228167","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=228167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}