{"id":5186,"date":"2016-12-06T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:16:13","slug":"retreat-of-the-fastest-melting-glacier-in-antarctica-began-in-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/retreat-of-the-fastest-melting-glacier-in-antarctica-began-in-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat of the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica began in 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5187\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5187\" class=\"wp-image-5187\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"Pine Island Glacier\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/unnamed-5.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/unnamed-5-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pine Island Glacier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The loss of ice on Pine Island Glacier makes up about a quarter of Antarctica&#8217;s melt, and a new study pinpointed the source of its fast retreat to the El Nino event of 1945. Using dating techniques, an international team of researchers studied sediment cores from the glacier&#8217;s floating ice shelf. They discovered that the initial cavity of water beneath the ice began around 1945, and the final detachment occurred around 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J. A. Smith, T. J. Andersen, M. Shortt, A. M. Gaffney, M. Truffer, T. P. Stanton, R. Bindschadler, P. Dutrieux, A. Jenkins, C.-D. Hillenbrand, W. Ehrmann, H. F. J. Corr, N. Farley, S. Crowhurst &amp; D. G. Vaughan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Smith, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Email: jaas@bas.ac.uk, Tel: +44 1223 221229<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature20136.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published in <em>Nature<\/em> on November 23, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of ice on Pine Island Glacier makes up about a quarter of Antarctica&#8217;s melt, and a new study pinpointed the source of its fast retreat to the El Nino event of 1945. Using dating techniques, an international team of researchers studied sediment cores from the glacier&#8217;s floating ice shelf. They discovered that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2765,31,2766,2767,2764,187],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-arctic-sciences","tag-climate-change","tag-ice-loss","tag-ice-melt","tag-pine-island-glacier","tag-sea-ice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/unnamed-5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1lE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}