{"id":254584,"date":"2025-11-10T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:57:09","slug":"university-of-leicester-researchers-track-arctic-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254584\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Leicester researchers track Arctic climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My first thought flying over the fjords and seeing the ice shelves, I genuinely welled up because it was just so stunning,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really put into perspective that even though I sit behind a desk and look at data and we see these trends, it is really happening and it is really affecting people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Climate scientists say the Arctic is warming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4dgp1p3p1o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four times faster than the global average<\/a>, so accurately tracking temperature changes is essential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jasdeep Singh Anand said taking continuous measurements was &#8220;very challenging&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a region that is 5.5 million square miles and a mixture of open ocean, sea ice, tundra, so satellites offer our best method of viewing this area over a very very long timescale,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, because we&#8217;re measuring the temperature indirectly from space, we need assurance that these measurements are correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;My first thought flying over the fjords and seeing the ice shelves, I genuinely welled up because it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-254584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}