{"id":365372,"date":"2017-08-28T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8ae7d880aaa3b4473c99bdcdadba5866"},"modified":"2017-08-28T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:00:06","slug":"climate-may-quickly-drive-forest-eating-beetles-north-says-study-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=365372","title":{"rendered":"Climate may quickly drive forest-eating beetles north, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the range of the southern pine beetle\u2014one of the world&#8217;s most aggressive tree-killing insects\u2014through much of the northern United States and southern Canada, says a new study. The beetle&#8217;s range is sharply limited by annual extreme temperature lows, but these lows are rising much faster than average temperatures\u2014a trend that will probably drive the beetles&#8217; spread, say the authors. The study was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the range of the southern pine beetle&mdash;one of the world&#8217;s most aggressive tree-killing insects&mdash;through much of the northern United States and southern Canada, says a new study. The beetle&#8217;s range is sharply limited by annual extreme temperature lows, but these lows are rising much faster than average temperatures&mdash;a trend that will probably drive the beetles&#8217; spread, say the authors. The study was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.<\/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-365372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365372","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=365372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365373,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365372\/revisions\/365373"}],"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=365372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}