{"id":764078,"date":"2023-08-25T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=764078"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:41:58","slug":"earths-third-pole-and-its-role-in-global-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=764078","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#039;s &#039;third pole&#039; and its role in global climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth&#8217;s &#8220;third pole.&#8221; A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the plateau feeds a vast network of rivers, including major waterways like the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow. These rivers, which together make up Asia&#8217;s &#8220;water tower,&#8221; provide water to nearly 40% of the world&#8217;s population.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-earth-pole-role-global-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Earth&#8217;s &#8216;third pole&#8217; and its role in global climate<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth&#8217;s &#8220;third pole.&#8221; A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764078","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764078\/revisions"}],"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=764078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}