{"id":14061,"date":"2010-11-24T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/?p=14061"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:12:20","slug":"climate-change-and-contaminants-implications-and-potential-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/webinars\/climate-change-and-contaminants-implications-and-potential-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and Contaminants: Implications and Potential Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that global climate change may be exacerbating contamination from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic. Temperatures in the Arctic are warming five to 10 times faster than elsewhere in the world. Scientists forecast that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by 2040, with profound effects on ice-dependent species. Increasing storm surges, melting permafrost, and sea ice disappearance are among the most dramatic effects of climate warming. As the climate warms, contaminants contained in permafrost, glaciers and sea ice release into the surrounding environment. Climate change causes more rapid dispersal of contaminants into freshwater and marine environments, thus more directly affecting the health of fish and marine mammals that serve as the primary traditional foods for northern Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that global climate change may be exacerbating contamination from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic. Temperatures in the Arctic are warming five to 10 times faster than elsewhere in the world. Scientists forecast that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by 2040, with profound effects on ice-dependent species. Increasing storm surges, melting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,234],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}