{"id":21323,"date":"2021-03-09T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2021-03-09T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T03:22:48","slug":"interesting-climate-stories-in-the-news-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/03\/interesting-climate-stories-in-the-news-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting climate stories in the news this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been a lot of stories about climate in the news this week. Here are a sprinkling of the most interesting ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Science<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/03\/butterflies-are-vanishing-western-us-not-reasons-scientists-thought?utm_campaign=SciMag&amp;utm_source=JHubbard&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\">Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.\u2014but not for the reasons scientists thought<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>CBS News<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/humans-not-nature-may-changing-200004098.html\">Humans, not nature, may be changing Atlantic hurricane cycles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Yale Climate Connections<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/yaleclimateconnections.org\/2021\/03\/new-report-u-s-dams-levees-get-d-grades-need-115-billion-in-upgrades\/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_DAILY_030421)\">U.S. dams, levees get D grades, need $115 billion in upgrades<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>CBS News<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/global-warming-led-ancient-mass-012747521.html\">Global warming led to ancient mass extinction event, scientists say<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak.jpg 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/white-letter-hairstreak-188x138.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Last summer, a white-letter hairstreak was spotted in Scotland for the first time since 1884. BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of stories about climate in the news this week. Here are a sprinkling of the most interesting ones. Science: Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.\u2014but not for the reasons scientists thought CBS News: Humans, not nature, may be changing Atlantic hurricane cycles Yale Climate Connections: U.S. dams, levees get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":13735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21324,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions\/21324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}