{"id":627662,"date":"2026-09-17T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627662\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:48:08","slug":"greenland-and-antarctica-glaciers-have-lost-more-than-11-millions-tons-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627662\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland and Antarctica glaciers have lost more than 11 millions tons of ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BQ5WMUWKK5CAXH6IBRFRUXUGGM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In a fjord in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2026\/01\/05\/greenland-rocks-melting-ice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2026\/01\/05\/greenland-rocks-melting-ice\/\">western Greenland<\/a>, there is a glacier that flows so fast it generates some 41 billion metric tons of icebergs every year. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3S5MCP34RBEURGEMOIXIVIPMJA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Day after day, building-size blocks of blue-white ice calve into the ocean and drift like a fleet of frozen ships through the fjord\u2019s still waters. Each additional berg causes sea levels to rise ever so slightly, like an ice cube being added to a glass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a fjord in western Greenland, there is a glacier that flows so fast it generates some 41&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-627662","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\/627662","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=627662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}