{"637818":{"#nid":"637818","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Humans have altered North America\u2019s ecosystems more than melting glaciers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent human activity, including agriculture, has had a greater impact on North America\u0026rsquo;s plants and animals than even the glaciers that retreated more than 10,000 years ago. \u0026quot;This rapid turnover is a harbinger of the extinction risk and the overall ecosystem disruption that is impending,\u0026rdquo; noted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/mcguire-dr-jenny-l\u0022\u003EJennifer McGuire\u003C\/a\u003E, a paleoecologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-08-13 01:35:25","changed_gmt":"2020-08-13 01:37:12","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/08\/humans-have-altered-north-america-s-ecosystems-more-melting-glaciers","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"807","name":"environment"},{"id":"791","name":"Global Warming"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}