{"id":7017,"date":"2017-06-14T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:29:02","slug":"climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7017","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While overuse has played a part, a significant portion of the reservoir decline is due to an ongoing drought, which started in 2000 and has led to substantial reductions in river flows. Most droughts are caused by a lack of precipitation. However, our published research shows that about one-third of the flow decline was likely due to higher temperatures in the Colorado River\u2019s Upper Basin, which result from climate change.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280\">Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While overuse has played a part, a significant portion of the reservoir decline is due to an ongoing drought, which started in 2000 and has led to substantial reductions in river flows. Most droughts are caused by a lack of precipitation. However, our published research shows that about one-third of the flow decline was likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}