{"id":83796,"date":"2018-10-18T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/ice-shelfs-eerie-song-could-be-early-warning-system-for-collapse"},"modified":"2018-10-18T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","slug":"ice-shelfs-eerie-song-could-be-early-warning-system-for-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/ice-shelfs-eerie-song-could-be-early-warning-system-for-collapse","title":{"rendered":"Ice shelf\u2019s eerie song could be early warning system for collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w56RxaX9THY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ice shelves perform a vital function in slowing down the rate of glacier melt in Antarctica, so scientists keep an eye on them for signs of collapse. And as the continent\u2019s largest, the Ross Ice Shelf is particularly important. After monitoring seismic activity over a few years, researchers noticed that the Ross Ice Shelf is \u201csinging\u201d \u2013 and listening out for changes in that song could be an early warning system for potential problems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/ross-ice-shelf-singing-early-warning-collapse\/56859\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/ross-ice-shelf-singing-early-warning-collapse\/56859\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice shelves perform a vital function in slowing down the rate of glacier melt in Antarctica, so scientists keep an eye on them for signs of collapse. And as the continent\u2019s largest, the Ross Ice Shelf is particularly important. After monitoring seismic activity over a few years, researchers noticed that the Ross Ice Shelf is [\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-83796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83796","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=83796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}