{"id":11731,"date":"2017-07-12T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2017-07-12T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:23:58","slug":"new-iceberg-calves-from-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/new-iceberg-calves-from-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"New iceberg calves from Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been watching the birth of a new massive iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica over the past few months.\u00a0 Today it was announced that the final separation of the huge ice chunk has occurred as the last 3-mile segment of crack split.\u00a0 Since this is floating ice, the loss of the ice from the ice shelf will not change sea level.\u00a0 However, its removal from the ice shelf means that land ice dammed up behind it is now free to flow downhill much faster than before.\u00a0 That could ultimately increase sea level as the land ice enters the ocean and starts to melt.\u00a0 You can read more about it at <em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/12\/giant-antarctic-iceberg-breaks-free-of-larsen-c-ice-shelf\">here<\/a> and <em>MarketWatch<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-among-biggest-ever-recorded-snaps-off-antarctica-2017-07-12\">here<\/a>. <em>Newser<\/em> has some additional links to related stories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/245601\/were-going-to-need-new-maps-for-antarctica.html?utm_source=dailyrundown&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=17636354901943448109&amp;utm_campaign=20170712\">here <\/a>and provides and estimate that this is the third-largest iceberg ever measured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/larsen-c-iceberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11732\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/larsen-c-iceberg-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/larsen-c-iceberg-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/larsen-c-iceberg-164x138.jpg 164w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/larsen-c-iceberg.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been watching the birth of a new massive iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica over the past few months.\u00a0 Today it was announced that the final separation of the huge ice chunk has occurred as the last 3-mile segment of crack split.\u00a0 Since this is floating ice, the loss of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}