Sentences with phrase «fed by the glaciers»

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

Hundreds of millions of people, including many of the poorest farm households, live in river valleys where irrigation is fed by glacier melt and snowmelt.

Flathead Lake in Montana's Flathead Valley is fed by the glaciers in Glacier National Park.

Join us on a panoramic tour across the crystal waters of magical Maligne Lake, fed by the glaciers of Jasper National Park.

The terrain is fairly jagged, with many gullies and streams fed by glaciers which eventually pour into the Urubamba river, which crosses the area forming a deep valley which runs through the granite base of Vilcabamba for more than 40 km through a variety of eco-systems.

Local rivers fed by these glaciers are becoming seasonal rivers, generating conflict among the 2 million people who depend on them for water supplies during the dry season.

Ice shelves are thick platforms of ice that are fed by glaciers and float on the ocean.

The collapses did not affect sea levels - ice shelves are thick plates of ice, fed by glaciers, that float on the ocean around much of Antarctica.

The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush - Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops.

Many streams in Lo are not fed by glaciers which have the most dependable water resources.

In many rivers fed by glaciers, there will be a «meltwater dividend» during some part of the 21st century, due to increasing rates of loss of glacier ice, but the continued shrinkage of the glaciers means that after several decades the total amount of meltwater that they yield will begin to decrease (medium confidence).

Not exact matches

Roughly 210 million people live in the region, and another 1.3 billion people who live downstream depend on rivers fed in part by glaciers and mountain snowpack.

EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes.

A laser altimeter onboard the ICESat satellite had documented the thinning of glaciers feeding into Larsen B and Scar Inlet — as indicated by lowering of the ice surface — but the altimeter had fizzled out earlier that year.

The team spent three weeks hopping by plane between the Scar Inlet ice shelf and the glaciers feeding into it.

All these cooking fires are, in effect, drying the region, both by contributing to the melting of glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers as well as by decreasing the evaporation that drives rainfall.

The shelf is fed by several mountain glaciers that flow from the continent's interior into the ocean like fingers connected to a palm.

He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.

Mark, who focuses on the Andes region, developed a method of determining how much of a community's water supply is glacier - fed by analyzing the hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in water samples.

Despite these conditions, the Tarim river flows through this desert region, mainly fed by meltwater from high - altitude glaciers.

In Ecuador's capital, Quito, and the cities of La Paz and El Alto, on the Bolivian Altiplano, millions of people depend on water supplies fed by retreating glaciers.

Although losses are partly offset by strong gains on the spine and western flank of the Antarctic Peninsula, numerous glaciers feeding intact Antarctic Peninsula, West Antarctic and East Antarctic ice shelves are also thinning dynamically.

The biggest glacier - fed lake in the Rockies — and the second - largest in the world, azure Maligne Lake has also been called Sore Foot Lake, so named by a 19th - century rail surveyor after his own difficult journey in this remote wilderness.

Whatever your fitness level, also be sure to bring your camera to capture your own special memories of soaring peaks, stunning glaciers, lush carpets of alpine wildflowers fed by clear springs and delightful glimpses of wildlife.

Day 7 — Maligne Lake, Jasper Park Enjoy a scenic morning drive to glacier - fed Maligne Lake, 14 miles long and ringed by dramatic snow - capped peaks.

We'll take you, whether by foot, bike or kayak, to the glacier - clad peaks of Patagonia; the Inca ruins of Peru's Machu Picchu; the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands; the arresting views from Cotapaxi Volcano in Ecuador; the unique highlands surrounding Lake Titicaca; the hundreds of rivers that feed the mighty Amazon - there's more than enough to do and see here to fill several bucket lists.

Bordered on two sides by National Parks, the tiny village sits against a backdrop of rugged high country, beautiful mountains, glacier fed rivers and ancient beech forests.

On arrival, hike the Hooker valley (3 - 4 hrs return) to the Tasman glacier river, crossing 2 hanging rope bridges, or take a glacial lake cruise on the Tasman lake — fed by the melting glacier (additional cost).

It is another «Lost City of the Incas» rediscovered officially late in 20th century located high on a ridge spur almost 1750 mts above the raging glacier - fed Apurimac River and surrounded by towering Salkantay and Humantay snow - capped peaks.

In the Canadian Rockies you will find numerous pristine high altitude lakes that are fed by the clear, cold, crystal waters of the Canada's glaciers.

Or kick back and soak in hot pools fed by pure glacier water.

Two thirds of the glaciers that feed the Yellow and Yangtze rivers of China will disappear by 2060 if even the current 7 percent annual rate of melting continues.

Pakistan's largely agrarian economy, Rasul noted, is mainly fed by the Hindu Kush - Karakoram and Himalayan glaciers that are reported receding due to global warming.

Built from images acquired by radar satellites, the visualisation details all the great glaciers and the smaller ice streams that feed them.

The Rhone River begins at the Rhone Glacier, Switzerland and is fed by the largest glacier in the Alps Gross Aletsch.

View across Baker Lake impounded by Baker Dam to the glaciers on Mount Baker that feed this hydropower project.

More than one - sixth of the world's population live in glacier - or snowmelt - fed river basins and will be affected by the seasonal shift in streamflow, an increase in the ratio of winter to annual flows, and possibly the reduction in low flows caused by decreased glacier extent or snow water storage (high confidence)[3.4.1, 3.4.3].

Fed by iron from melting glaciers, these immense blooms represent rapid explosions of life that can equally rapidly deplete waters of nutrients and then oxygen as they die off.

Climate change caused by the emissions of carbon dioxide and other gasses is further reducing the earth's capacity to feed itself, through the expansion of drought zones, rising sea levels and the shrinkage of glacier - fed rivers.

The projected disappearance of small glaciers * worldwide threatens to eliminate the water supply for numerous towns in valleys, such as the Ecuadorian capital Quito, fed by the rivers that flow down from the surrounding mountains.

These glaciers are fed by the massive Greenland ice sheet, which is shrinking despite recent increases in local snowfall.

SciDev.Net: Climate change will cause water levels in Asia's five major river systems, that are fed by Himalayan glaciers, to increase at least until 2050, a new study predicts.

First it was the glaciers, then the link with extreme weather, now it's an apparently erroneous claim that «global warming could cut rain - fed north African crop production by up to 50 % by 2020».

The Indus Basin Irrigation System gets its water supply from the Tarbela dam on the Indus River and the Mangla dam on the Jhelum River, both of which are located in the upper Indus basin and are fed largely by glacier meltwater.

The 40 percent of the world's population whose lives depend upon water from the seven rivers fed by rapidly diminishing Himalayan glaciers are largely not white people.

And if you are not sure about the benefits of mitigation — I recently went to a talk by an Indian scientist who spoke about the melting Himalayan glaciers and his fear that, if we don't stabilise the atmosphere, they will go and stop feeding those major rivers that provide water and make agriculture possible for 1 - 2 billion people.

Third and last, is this statement by a 2004 article by Monbiot true, «the Himalayan glaciers which feed the Ganges, the Bramaputra, the Mekong, the Yangtze and the other great Asian rivers are likely to disappear within 40 years.»?

Rivers fed by retreating glaciers are at record levels.