Sentences with phrase «at holes in the ice»

The bears» feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

Not exact matches

With blender running, add ice cubes, one at a time, through hole in the lid; blend until smooth.

The demonstration had been meant to highlight de Blasio's plan to combat vermin at NYCHA projects by using the dry ice to suffocate them in their holes instead of using dangerous poisons.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

«The conventional picture of Antarctic sea ice being a thin veneer over the ocean is probably only true for some portion of it,» says Ted Maksym, an ice researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts (WHOI).

What's happening here is that its ice is flowing at depth over geologic time, trying to fill in the hole, but the stiffer upper layer of the crust is resisting that.

Back at the cabin I wash up with a lotion tissue and brush my teeth with a cup of water from the jerrycan the musher fills with water from an ice - hole in the lake.

The hole, which was formed thousands of years ago during the last ice age, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and divers can enjoy it at their own pace, or join one of the many dive excursions that take in the Great Blue Hhole, which was formed thousands of years ago during the last ice age, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and divers can enjoy it at their own pace, or join one of the many dive excursions that take in the Great Blue HoleHole.

Because of my own fascination with ice (in all its forms), and my family connection to the ice harvesting industry, I was especially delighted to finally see the Marsden Hartley Ice Hole, Maine (1908) recently at the wonderful Met / Breuer exhibitiice (in all its forms), and my family connection to the ice harvesting industry, I was especially delighted to finally see the Marsden Hartley Ice Hole, Maine (1908) recently at the wonderful Met / Breuer exhibitiice harvesting industry, I was especially delighted to finally see the Marsden Hartley Ice Hole, Maine (1908) recently at the wonderful Met / Breuer exhibitiIce Hole, Maine (1908) recently at the wonderful Met / Breuer exhibition.

In a heartbreaking move, the Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whaleIn a heartbreaking move, the Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whalein the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whalein icebreakers to help free the whales.

Ozone holes are caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles, or liquid droplets, which form at high altitudes in the extreme cold of the polar regions.

Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, and colleagues from France and the Netherlands report in Nature Climate Change that changes in the extent and thickness of sea ice will create serious problems for a flightless, streamlined, survival machine that can live and even breed at minus 40 °C, trek across 120 kilometres of ice, and dive to depths of more than 500 metres.

Study of the ice core recovered by Russian scientists from deep Antarctic holes has revealed that in the last 450,000 years the Earth has had at least four peaks of temperature upsurge with fluctuations of 10 to 12 degrees.

Just as another example, take a block of ice at say -4 C. Put it in a hole as deep as you like over 20 meters depth.

Luke Trusel, postdoctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, and colleagues report in Nature Geoscience that they foresee a doubling of surface melting of the ice shelves by 2050.

Luke Trusel, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, whose similar work was cited in the DeConto paper, says that taken together, his work and DeConto's new work shows that «melting at the [ice shelf] surface can go from insignificant to extremely significant over a short amount of time.

The ice covering most of the Arctic Ocean, several researchers said, is broken by long, wide cracks and gaping holes in many places, sometimes even at the pole, and especially in the summer.

One of the mechanisms discussed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (that I linked to) was to do with ice loss in the Arctic influencing atmospheric and ocean coupling and reducing thermohaline circulation.

High methane concentrations in well - ice - bonded sediments and gas releases suggest that pore - space hydrate may be found at depths as shallow as 119 m. Geochemical and isotopic determinations suggest that the methane hydrate observed in the core hole is biogenic (microbial) in origin.

Igloo — built from blocks of snow and / or ice cut to shape and used to construct a dome with a short tunnel as an entrance at the bottom, and a hole in the centre at the top of the dome to ensure air exchange.