{"id":1514,"date":"2024-11-12T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/wildfire-burn-scars-impacting-western-water-availability-by-shifting-the-way-snow-melts-study\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:53:17","slug":"wildfire-burn-scars-impacting-western-water-availability-by-shifting-the-way-snow-melts-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wildfire-burn-scars-impacting-western-water-availability-by-shifting-the-way-snow-melts-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burn scars impacting Western water availability by shifting the way snow melts: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As increasingly intense wildfires climb to higher elevations across the U.S. West, the burn scars they leave behind are shifting the way snow is melting, a new study has found. The accumulation of snowpack, which appears in rivers as runoff in the spring, is an important source of water in the drought-stricken region&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/4896670-wildfires-shift-snow-melting-water-western-us-study\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As increasingly intense wildfires climb to higher elevations across the U.S. West, the burn scars they leave behind are shifting the way snow is melting, a new study has found. The accumulation of snowpack, which appears in rivers as runoff in the spring, is an important source of water in the drought-stricken region&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}