Sentences with phrase «by climate warming»

Yet, it is not right to say the particular storm was caused by climate warming.

During that break - up, 3,200 square kilometers (1,235 square miles) of ice disintegrated within a few days «due to mechanical instabilities of the ice masses triggered by climate warming,» according to the European Space Agency.

A 2007 paper published by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research indicated that the more delicate, warm permafrost areas are more affected by the climate warming because their natural balance has been upset by the construction's disturbance of the land.

«Blue crabs more tolerant of low oxygen than previously thought: But ability to withstand hypoxia threatened by climate warming.»

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

Previous studies established that especially in cooler mountain regions, carbon bound in soil organic matter reacts very sensitively to warmer weather caused by climate warming, and is increasingly released by microorganisms.

«These two papers clearly illustrate, for the first time, the relationship between ice shelf collapses caused by climate warming, and accelerated glacier flow,» Rignot remarks

The loss of Arctic sea ice caused by climate warming is having world - wide effects on shipping, fishing, and human life.

Antoni Lewkowicz of the University of Ottawa has studied several northern landslides and rockslides that he says can be at least partially attributed to thinning and weakening of ice or permafrost caused by climate warming.

Scientists recognize that the final stages of iceberg break - up resemble the rapid disintegration of ice shelves caused by climate warming.