{"id":1685,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/mount-everest-is-still-growing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"mount-everest-is-still-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/mount-everest-is-still-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest is still growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-10-04 16:00:45<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Mount Everest is getting taller every year.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers have discovered that the highest mountain in the world continues to grow by about two millimetres per year because it is being pushed upwards by a nearby river.<BR><br \/>\nThe river is cutting into a landscape around the mountain and has increased Everest&#8217;s height by between 15 and 50 metres over the past 89,000 years.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Xu Han, lead author of the study at the China University of Geosciences, said: &#8220;The changing height of Mount Everest really highlights the dynamic nature of the Earth&#8217;s service.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The interaction between the erosion of the Arun river and the upward pressure of the Earth&#8217;s mantle gives Mount Everest a boost, pushing it up higher than it would otherwise be.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nCo-author Adam Smith, a PhD student at University College London (UCL) Earth Sciences, added: &#8220;Mount Everest is a remarkable mountain of myth and legend and it&#8217;s still growing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-10-04 16:00:45 Mount Everest is getting taller every year. Researchers have discovered that the highest mountain in the world continues to grow by about two millimetres per year because it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}