{"id":53968,"date":"2023-04-01T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/01\/slipping-through-our-fingers-new-zealand-scientists-distraught-at-scale-of-glacier-loss"},"modified":"2023-04-01T05:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:00:32","slug":"slipping-through-our-fingers-new-zealand-scientists-distraught-at-scale-of-glacier-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53968","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slipping through our fingers\u2019: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research institute NIWA predicts many of country\u2019s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade <\/p>\n<p>The plane\u2019s engine groans, and its small frame rises. Through a thin membrane of cloud, the spine of the southern alps rises like a dark sawblade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m wondering if my favourite glacier is going to be there,\u201d says principal climate scientist Dr Andrew Lorrey. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a really, really hot one this summer. It\u2019s hard to say. We\u2019ll just have to see how they\u2019ve gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/01\/slipping-through-our-fingers-new-zealand-scientists-distraught-at-scale-of-glacier-loss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research institute NIWA predicts many of country\u2019s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade The plane\u2019s engine groans, and its small frame rises. Through a thin membrane of cloud, the spine of the southern alps rises like a dark sawblade&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,759,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-glaciers","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53968\/revisions\/53969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}