Sentences with phrase «despite less ice»

Aside from changes in how belugas dove for food, the nearly two decades of data show that the whales were able to thrive in their summer and fall ocean habitats, despite less ice cover.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, despite starring popular and normally enjoyable actors like Freeman (10 Items or Less, Lucky Number Slevin) and Cusack (The Ice Harvest, Must Love Dogs), The Contract is a very routine thriller, where an average Joe gets stuck in the middle of a heated battle between cops and criminals, forced to play the hero in order to do what's right and to gain back he respect of his rebellious son.

Remember that on the map you link to, despite the distracting psychadelic colours, in fact ALL the ice on the RH side will start 2009 as multiyear ice according to the NSIDC's definition: http://nsidc.org/cgi-bin/words/word.pl?multiyear%20ice And if there's less 4/6 + year old ice?

Less is known about southwest Greenland glaciers due to a lack of ice thickness data but the glaciers have accelerated there as well and are likely to be strongly out of balance despite thickening of the interior.

For example despite his research showing cycles of heavy spring ice had been most detrimental to seals and bears, Stirling and Derocher's review of polar bear «science» used the very same research to falsely imply that less summer ice was the problem.

As current levels of CO2 show the same CO2 levels at the south pole as for the rest (95 %) of the atmosphere within a year (despite fast changes in level), that gives confidence that ice cores show more or less global CO2 levels of ancient atmospheres...

Finds that despite more global warming in CCSM4, Arctic changes are generally less than under comparable greenhouse forcing in CCSM3, as represented by Arctic amplification (16 % weaker) and the date of a seasonally ice - free Arctic Ocean (20 years later)

Barents Sea numbers have probably increased since 2005 and have definitely not declined despite much less sea ice cover.