{"id":13043,"date":"2020-02-14T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:55:56","slug":"antarctica-registers-record-temperature-of-over-20-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13043","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica registers record temperature of over 20 C"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p>Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p>The icy continent is now recording temperatures in the relatively balmy 20s is likely to further fuel fears about the warming of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The reading was taken at Seymour Island, part of a chain off the peninsula that curves out from the northern tip of Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The island is home to Argentina&#8217;s Marambio research base.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerating melt-off from glaciers and especially ice sheets in Antarctica is helping drive sea level rises, threatening coastal megacities and small island nations.<\/p>\n<p>The news came a week after Argentina&#8217;s National Meteorological Service recorded the hottest day on record for Argentine Antarctica: 18.3 degrees Celsius at midday at the Esperanza base, located near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.<\/p>\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p>The previous record stood at 17.5 degrees on March 24, 2015, it said. It has been recording Antarctic temperatures since 1961.<\/p>\n<p>The past decade has been the hottest on record, the United Nations said last month, with 2019 the second-hottest year ever, after 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday. The icy continent is now recording temperatures in the relatively balmy 20s is likely to further fuel fears about the warming of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13045,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions\/13045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}