{"id":330069,"date":"2017-06-14T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a05cc62769165203865439611504b38b"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:20:01","slug":"polar-bears-declining-mercury-levels-likely-due-to-climate-related-shifts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=330069","title":{"rendered":"Polar bears&#8217; declining mercury levels likely due to climate-related shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand how human activities are affecting the planet, scientists often study the health of animals in the wild. Now a new study, appearing in ACS&#8217; journal Environmental Science &#038; Technology, finds that the levels of mercury in some polar bears are declining. But rather than heralding a drop in mercury in the environment, the decrease could indicate how climate change has led the animals to shift foraging habits, which has affected their diets and weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand how human activities are affecting the planet, scientists often study the health of animals in the wild. Now a new study, appearing in ACS&#8217; journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology, finds that the levels of mercury in some polar bears are declining. But rather than heralding a drop in mercury in the environment, the decrease could indicate how climate change has led the animals to shift foraging habits, which has affected their diets and weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330070,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330069\/revisions\/330070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}