Sentences with phrase «day polar ice»

The present - day polar ice sheets are relatively young in geological terms.

Not exact matches

Across all 19 polar bear populations, the researchers found that the total number of ice - covered days declined at the rate of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 and 2014.

Focus of Study The long - term variation of the Earth's gravity field due to post-glacial rebound and present - day ice melting in the polar regions.

Both the north and south polar regions of Mars are covered in a permanent cap of ice, similar to modern day Antarctica.

While polar bears live mostly on land or ice, they are excellent swimmers and have been known to swim up to 45 miles a day.

Anyway, in The Day After Tomorrow New Yorkers need not feel alone as the entire Northern hemisphere is subjected to freakish destructive weather as the polar ice caps melt because of global warming and paradoxically result in temperatures dropping to sub-Arctic levels.

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

Updated Ten days ago, the grinding slow - motion rivers of floating sea ice flowing around Canada's Arctic archipelago claimed the lives of Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo, seasoned Dutch polar trekkers combining an adventurous spirit with environmental activism and citizen science.

Meanwhile,... a couple of days ago, the national television channel reported on the melting of the polar ice caps.

Impacts of global warming in Churchill include an increase in the number of ice - free days and reduced nutrition in polar bears due to a shorter feeding season (Stirling et al., 1999).

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This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously...

Scientists fear melting sea ice could one day make killer whales the Hudson Bay's top predator, a startling ecosystem shift and a blow for Inuit populations already reeling from dwindling polar bear numbers.

Since 1980, the ice season in Hudson Bay has fallen at a rate of about one day a year, forcing polar bears to spent more time on dry land rather than hunting seals — their main source of food — on sea ice.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe itÂ's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

The row has erupted after a key polar satellite broke down a few days ago, leaving the US with only three ageing ones, each operating long past their shelf lives, to measure the Arctic's dwindling ice cap.

And every year, every day, every moment, the sun strikes our planet and the polar ice melts...

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

The data on this winter's ice buildup came on the day that international ministers gathered in Washington to address issues facing Earth's polar regions, which have been disproportionately affected by global warming.

The world has never before seen such a rapid rise in greenhouse gases with the present - day configuration of the continents and with large amounts of polar ice.

If the polar ice caps were actually melting, we would see an increase in the length of the day as the polar mass moved toward the oceans and lower latitudes.