Sentences with phrase «unprecedented warm waters»

Unprecedented warm waters off the Pacific coast over the past two years have led fish that marine mammals feed on to move to colder waters — making it difficult for seals and sea lions to nourish themselves, let alone feed their pups.

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Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

Just one week after scientists warned of unprecedented change brought on by warming in the Arctic, President Obama announced permanent protection for 115 million acres of federal waters in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

In particular, in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic the summer of 1922 was (for the time) quite warm, and there were a number of reports that discussed some unprecedented (again, for the time) observations of open water.

While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Niño, the unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal, where a warming atmosphere becomes more saturated with water vapor and capable of previously unimagined downpours.

Now, two new studies conducted by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, have revealed that glaciers in West Antarctica are retreating at an unprecedented rate due to warm water circulating beneath the ice shelf.

Two new studies conducted by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, have revealed that glaciers in West Antarctica are retreating at an unprecedented rate due to warm water circulating beneath the ice shelf.

- What is the source of this putative, unprecedented intrusion of warm water into the Arctic sea areas, to include the precise play of global warming in the phenomenon?

And this unprecedented warming of ocean waters occurred during a 30 - year period when human CO2 emissions were some 85 % less than the modern era (166 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions versus 784 billion tonnes for the most recent 30 - year span).

This past fall, hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria wreaked unprecedented devastation on communities across Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, with the impacts of each heightened by climate change and the accompanying warming of ocean waters.

Unprecedented warm ocean waters from 2014 through 2017 caused the most widespread and damaging coral bleaching event in history, killing millions of corals from the Great Barrier Reef to the Hawaiian Islands.

Observed bleaching in response to warm tropical waters invading cooler regions aroused fears that climate change had contributed to this «unprecedented» event.

Thus, sea ice has melted at an unprecedented rate and is now caught in a vicious cycle known as the ice - albedo feedback: as sea ice retreats, sunshine that would have been reflected into space by the bright white ice is instead absorbed by the ocean, causing waters to warm and melt even more ice.

According to Francis Chan, a marine ecologist at OSU, this recurrent dead zone is just another sign of global warming's harmful impact on ocean ecosystems around the world — prompted by unprecedented changes in wind patterns and water currents.