{"id":246524,"date":"2024-07-22T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/hundreds-of-greenlands-glacial-lakes-have-burst-since-2008\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:12","slug":"hundreds-of-greenlands-glacial-lakes-have-burst-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/hundreds-of-greenlands-glacial-lakes-have-burst-since-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Greenland&#8217;s glacial lakes have burst since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Icebergs floating in the Labrador Sea, Nuuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland; Shutterstock ID 1838040322; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/18164646\/SEI_213310301.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2440257\" data-caption=\"Icebergs floating in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland\" data-credit=\"Shutterstock\/Keith Levit\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Icebergs floating in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Shutterstock\/Keith Levit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of lakes dot Greenland\u2019s coast, their waters held back by walls of ice. But sometimes, the meltwater can surge through and spill into the sea. The first survey of its kind has found a 1200 per cent increase in the number of such leaky lakes compared with how many had previously been documented to burst, which could help better model sea level rise.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest factor in this spike is underreporting, according to the researchers, but it is possible that a rapidly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2426732-arctic-permafrost-is-now-a-net-source-of-major-greenhouse-gases\/\">warming Arctic<\/a> has played\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2440258-hundreds-of-greenlands-glacial-lakes-have-burst-since-2008\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Icebergs floating in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland Shutterstock\/Keith Levit Thousands of lakes dot Greenland\u2019s coast, their waters held back by walls of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}