{"id":32548,"date":"2018-10-29T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32548"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:34:29","slug":"chinas-melting-glacier-draws-tourists-amid-climate-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinas-melting-glacier-draws-tourists-amid-climate-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s melting glacier draws tourists amid climate worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/chinas-melting-glacier-draws-tourists-amid-climate-worries\/article25280070.ece\">China\u2019s melting glacier draws tourists amid climate worries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Baishui No. 1 Glacier in China has lost 60% of its mass and shrunk 250 m since 1982, according to a 2018 report in the Journal of Geophysical Research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>As an impact of climate change, the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass and shrunk 250 meters (820 feet) since 1982, according to the report.<\/li>\n<li>Millions of people each year are drawn to Baishui\u2019s frosty beauty on the southeastern edge of the Third Pole.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About Third pole: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a region in Central Asia with the world\u2019s third largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland that\u2019s roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.<\/li>\n<li>Third Pole glaciers are vital to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li>Asia\u2019s 10 largest rivers including the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong, and Ganges \u2014 are fed by seasonal melting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/china.jpg?resize=628%2C127&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/china.jpg?w=628&amp;ssl=1 628w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/china.jpg?resize=150%2C30&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/china.jpg?resize=300%2C61&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s melting glacier draws tourists amid climate worries News: Baishui No. 1 Glacier in China has lost 60% of its mass and shrunk 250 m since 1982, according to a 2018 report in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Important Facts: As an impact of climate change, the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinas-melting-glacier-draws-tourists-amid-climate-worries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China\u2019s melting glacier draws tourists amid climate worries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[874,408,576,217],"class_list":["post-32548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-baishui-glacier","tag-climate-change","tag-ecology-and-environment","tag-gs-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913565},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}