{"id":6536,"date":"2017-09-14T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/14\/asias-glaciers-to-shrink-by-a-third-by-2100-threatening-water-supply-of-millions\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:45:12","slug":"asias-glaciers-to-shrink-by-a-third-by-2100-threatening-water-supply-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6536","title":{"rendered":"Asia&#039;s glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High mountains of Asia hold biggest store of frozen water outside the poles and feed many of the world\u2019s great rivers, including the GangesAsia\u2019s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century\u2019s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers have said.This is a best-case scenario, based on the assumption that the world manages to limit average global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) over pre-industrial levels, a team wrote in the journal Nature. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/sep\/14\/asia-glaciers-shrink-threatening-water-supply\" target=\"_blank\">Asia&#039;s glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High mountains of Asia hold biggest store of frozen water outside the poles and feed many of the world\u2019s great rivers, including the GangesAsia\u2019s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century\u2019s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}