{"id":1133,"date":"2016-05-06T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:55:05","slug":"seabed-core-reveals-how-lush-antarctica-changed-to-icy-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/seabed-core-reveals-how-lush-antarctica-changed-to-icy-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica was once covered with tropical forests. Now researchers have fully charted the slow transition from tropical paradise to icy wasteland, thanks to a single marine sediment core. The core shows for the first time that temperate forests were a key transitional stage before falling temperatures turned the continent into a white wasteland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2087207-seabed-core-reveals-how-lush-antarctica-changed-to-icy-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica was once covered with tropical forests. Now researchers have fully charted the slow transition from tropical paradise to icy wasteland, thanks to a single marine sediment core. The core shows for the first time that temperate forests were a key transitional stage before falling temperatures turned the continent into a white wasteland. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}