{"id":610467,"date":"2026-08-31T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610467\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:42:14","slug":"earths-natural-cooling-shield-is-thinning-driving-global-temperatures-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610467\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#8217;s natural cooling shield is thinning, driving global temperatures higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tEarth&#8217;s natural cooling shield is thinning, driving global temperatures higher &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/earth-s-white-shield-is-collapsing-and-no-one-is-ready-for-what-s-next.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"In early 2025, the extent of global sea ice reached its lowest level on record.\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    In early 2025, the extent of global sea ice reached its lowest level on record. \u00a9 nyothep, Adobe Stock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earth&#8217;s natural cooling shield is thinning, driving global temperatures higher &#8211; Futura-Sciences August 31, 2026 3 min In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-610467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}