{"id":131445,"date":"2022-02-07T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131445"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:17:16","slug":"south-col-glacier-is-melting-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/south-col-glacier-is-melting-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"South Col Glacier is Melting Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: South Col Glacier is related to which of the following mountain peak?<\/strong><br>a) Kangchenjunga<br>b) Lhotse<br>c) Manaslu<br>d) Mount Everest<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to a recent research report, South Col Glacier on Mount Everest is melting quickly than ever before.<\/li><li>Researchers led by the University of Maine found that it has lost more than 180ft (54m) of thickness in the last 25 years.<\/li><li>It should be known that the South Col Glacier sits around 7,906m (25,938 ft) above sea-level.<\/li><li>Researchers say that it is thinning 80 times faster than it first took the ice to form on the surface.<\/li><li>The rate of decline has been blamed on warming temperatures and strong winds.<\/li><li>Scientists leading the study found that since the 1990s, ice that took around 2,000 years to form has melted away.<\/li><li>They also noted that the glacier&#8217;s thick snowpack has been eroded, exposing the underlying black ice to the sun and accelerating the melting process.<\/li><li>Dr Mariusz Potocki, one of the study&#8217;s lead researchers, said that the findings suggested that the South Col Glacier may vanish completely.<\/li><li>There will be more bedrock exposed. Compared to the thick ice covering it, this bedrock is tough to ascend.<\/li><li>According to the report, the melting of Mount Everest&#8217;s glacier will have negative climate consequences in India and other Himalayan countries.<\/li><li>It is expected to impact the monsoon significantly, and Avalanches are expected to become more frequent. More water sources are expected to go dry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-60259427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-60259427<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: South Col Glacier is related to which of the following mountain peak?a) Kangchenjungab) Lhotsec) Manaslud) Mount EverestAnswer: (d)Related Facts:- According to a recent research report, South Col Glacier on Mount Everest is melting quickly than ever before. Researchers led by the University of Maine found that it has lost more than 180ft (54m) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-131445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131447,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131445\/revisions\/131447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}