{"id":87173,"date":"2020-02-29T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14005"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:16:07","slug":"the-cause-and-concerns-over-red-snow-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-cause-and-concerns-over-red-snow-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"The cause and concerns over red snow in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, snow around Ukraine\u2019s Vernadsky Research Base, located off the coast of Antarctica\u2019s northernmost peninsula, has started to take on a red tinge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cause:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The red tint in the snow is caused by the microscopic <strong>Chlamydomonas nivalis algae <\/strong>which produce the tinted sunscreen to keep themselves warm.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concern:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As the snow becomes darker from the tinge from the algae, it absorbs more heat, as a result of which it melts faster.<\/li><li>Further, these algae change the snow\u2019s albedo (the amount of light or radiation the snow surface is able to reflect back).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, snow around Ukraine\u2019s Vernadsky Research Base, located off the coast of Antarctica\u2019s northernmost peninsula, has started to take on a red tinge Facts: Cause:&nbsp; The red tint in the snow is caused by the microscopic Chlamydomonas nivalis algae which produce the tinted sunscreen to keep themselves warm. Concern: As the snow becomes darker&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-cause-and-concerns-over-red-snow-in-antarctica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The cause and concerns over red snow in Antarctica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4217],"class_list":["post-87173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antarctica","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704901112},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87173","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=87173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}