{"id":558730,"date":"2018-12-18T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b443bdc737a13d6f420d1d947cc381ee"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:00:06","slug":"a-new-model-of-ice-friction-helps-scientists-understand-how-glaciers-flow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=558730","title":{"rendered":"A new model of ice friction helps scientists understand how glaciers flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 20th century, nearly all of Earth&#8217;s glaciers have been retreating or melting. Glaciers cover 10 percent of the planet&#8217;s land area and contain 75 percent of our fresh water. Moreover, the water from melting glaciers accounts for nearly two-thirds of the observed rise in global sea levels. Despite the looming ecological consequences, glacier motion remains poorly understood because of a lack of research on how large ice masses sheer and flow in contact with bedrock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 20th century, nearly all of Earth&#8217;s glaciers have been retreating or melting. Glaciers cover 10 percent of the planet&#8217;s land area and contain 75 percent of our fresh water. Moreover, the water from melting glaciers accounts for nearly t&#8230;<\/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-558730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558730","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=558730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558731,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558730\/revisions\/558731"}],"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=558730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}