{"id":71929,"date":"2017-08-15T19:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/edinburgh-university-scientists-find-91-volcanoes-under-antarctic-ice"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:02:28","slug":"edinburgh-university-scientists-find-91-volcanoes-under-antarctic-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/edinburgh-university-scientists-find-91-volcanoes-under-antarctic-ice","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh University scientists find 91 volcanoes under Antarctic ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edinburgh-university-scientists-find-91-volcanoes-under-antarctic-ice.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes \u2013 with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland\u2019s 3,970-metre Eiger.<\/p>\n<p>Geologists think the region, which sits two kilometers below ice in west Antarctica, will dwarf east Africa\u2019s volcanic ridge, which is rated as the world\u2019s densest concentration of volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4786564\/Scientists-uncover-91-volcanoes-Antarctica-ice.htmlA\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4786564\/Scientists-u...-ice.htmlA<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences. Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes \u2013 with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland\u2019s 3,970-metre Eiger. Geologists think the region, which sits two kilometers below ice in west Antarctica, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71929","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}