{"id":80073,"date":"2018-06-27T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/antarcticas-big-secret-active-volcanic-heat-found-under-pine-island-glacier"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:02:31","slug":"antarcticas-big-secret-active-volcanic-heat-found-under-pine-island-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/antarcticas-big-secret-active-volcanic-heat-found-under-pine-island-glacier","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica\u2019s big secret: Active volcanic heat found under Pine Island Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antarcticas-big-secret-active-volcanic-heat-found-under-pine-island-glacier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have made a shocking discovery under the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica \u2014 an active volcanic heat source, which they say has played a \u201ccritical role\u201d in the movement and melting of the glacier.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists were looking at the role the ocean plays in causing glaciers to weaken when the discovery was made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were looking to better understand the role of the ocean in melting the ice shelf,\u201d Assistant Professor Brice Loose of Newport, R.I., a chemical oceanographer and lead author of the paper, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/researchers-discover-volcanic-heat-source-under-major-antarctic-glacier\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/06\/27\/antarcticas-big-secret-active-volcanic-heat-found-under-pine-island-glacier.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/06\/27\/antarcticas-big-se...acier.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have made a shocking discovery under the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica \u2014 an active volcanic heat source, which they say has played a \u201ccritical role\u201d in the movement and melting of the glacier. The scientists were looking at the role the ocean plays in causing glaciers to weaken when the discovery was made. [\u2026]<\/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-80073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80073","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=80073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80235,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80073\/revisions\/80235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}