{"id":14175,"date":"2018-04-08T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2018-04-08T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:28:54","slug":"sahara-desert-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/sahara-desert-is-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahara Desert is expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to some newly published research in the peer-reviewed Journal of Climate, the Sahara Desert has expanded by 10 percent since 1920. Many deserts form in the belt of sinking air located around 30 degrees N and S latitude. This sinking air is associated with the Hadley cell, a vertical circulation of air linked to rising heated air in the tropics near the equator and sinking are at 30 N and S. The research indicates that the spreading of the desert band may be linked to an expansion of the Hadley cell, possibly by a warming climate. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/sahara-desert-is-expanding?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=ff6812ae51-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-ff6812ae51-393619445\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14176\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260-237x138.jpg 237w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/Sahara_desert_Wikimedia-e1522852776260.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some newly published research in the peer-reviewed Journal of Climate, the Sahara Desert has expanded by 10 percent since 1920. Many deserts form in the belt of sinking air located around 30 degrees N and S latitude. This sinking air is associated with the Hadley cell, a vertical circulation of air linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","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=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions\/14178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}