{"id":85256,"date":"2019-11-01T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=85256"},"modified":"2019-11-01T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:00:13","slug":"svalbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/svalbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Svalbard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently in news Svalbard Island, which is facing extreme consequences of climate change on the Earth is located in?<br> (a) Maldives<br> (b) Sri Lanka<br> (c) Norway<br> (d) Indonesia<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to the recent findings Svalbard located in Norway is facing extreme consequences of climate change. <\/li><li>Svalbard\u2019s main town Longyearbyen which is northern-most town on the planet is the fastest-warming town on the earth.<\/li><li>It is the result of rising sea level of Arctic sea due to Global Warming<\/li><li>Longyearbyen is the de facto capital of the Svalbard archipelago located between Norway and the North Pole.<\/li><li>According to a report by the Norwegian Environment Agency released in February-2019, temperatures in the town have risen by 4 degrees Celsius since 1971.<\/li><li>That is five times faster than the global average. During winters, the temperature has gone up by 7\u00b0C. <\/li><li>Researchers have estimated that Longyearbyen and Svalbard\u2019s temperature will increase by 10\u00b0C by 2100, according to current trends.<\/li><li>The recent heat wave in Europe is an example that can explain the condition of Svalbard.<\/li><li>Experts are blaming it on the disruption of a system known as the jet stream.<\/li><li>Since 1979, the Arctic sea ice extent has declined by nearly 12% per decade, with the most pronounced winter reduction in Svalbard and the Barents Sea area.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/climate-change-svalbard\/on-the-front-lines-of-climate-change-in-the-worlds-northernmost-town-idINKCN1VO1A3\">https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/climate-change-svalbard\/on-the-front-lines-of-climate-change-in-the-worlds-northernmost-town-idINKCN1VO1A3<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/world-s-northernmost-town-now-its-fastest-warming-too-65411\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/world-s-northernmost-town-now-its-fastest-warming-too-65411<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently in news Svalbard Island, which is facing extreme consequences of climate change on the Earth is located in? (a) Maldives (b) Sri Lanka (c) Norway (d) Indonesia Answer: (c) Related facts: According to the recent findings Svalbard located in Norway is facing extreme consequences of climate change. Svalbard\u2019s main town Longyearbyen which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":85257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-85256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85256","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=85256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85256"}],"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=85256"},{"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=85256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}