{"id":4493,"date":"2023-01-05T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:11:22","slug":"how-termite-behaviour-is-linked-to-a-warming-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/how-termite-behaviour-is-linked-to-a-warming-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How termite behaviour is linked to a warming world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has found that termites decompose wood at a much <strong>higher rate in warmer conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For every 10 degrees Celsius increase in temperature, their decomposition activity goes up by almost seven times.<\/li>\n<li>According to the study, termites release <strong>carbon from dead wood in the form of carbon dioxide and methane, two of the most important greenhouse gases<\/strong>. So, an increase in termite population and their faster decomposing activity can cause more greenhouse emissions, resulting in a hotter planet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are around 3,000 species of termites across the world<\/strong>, including the ones that consume plant material and even soil. However, the most famous are the wood-eating termites.<\/li>\n<li>Another research by scientists at the University of Florida found that two Floridian varieties of termites were able to <strong>interbreed during warmer winters and hybridise into new \u201chighly destructive super-termites.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What are termites?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Termites are social insects that build large nests in soil or wood and can occasionally cause damage to wooden structures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/how-termite-behaviour-is-linked-to-a-warming-world-findings-of-a-new-study-8358607\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How termite behaviour is linked to a warming world: Findings of a new study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has found that termites decompose wood at a much higher rate in warmer conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}