{"id":9367,"date":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/giant-ice-sheet-breaks-from-greenland\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"giant-ice-sheet-breaks-from-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/giant-ice-sheet-breaks-from-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Ice Sheet Breaks from Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-10900235\">www.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, UK, August 7, 2010: A giant sheet of ice four tumes the area of Manhattan, measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles), has broken off a glacier in Greenland according to researchers at a US university.<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962, said Prof Andreas Muenchow of the University of Delaware. There was enough fresh water locked up in the ice island to &#8220;keep all US public tap water flowing for 120 days,&#8221; said Prof Muenchow.<\/p>\n<p>The first six months of 2010 have been the hottest on record globally, scientists have said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.bbc.co.uk LONDON, UK, August 7, 2010: A giant sheet of ice four tumes the area of Manhattan, measuring 260,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}