Sentences with phrase «few dozen ice»

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A few months after the Boardlist launched, following a beta period, it touted more than five dozen active searches and one early success: The site facilitated Martin's appointment to the board of Challenged, an app that promotes social media challenges along the lines of the ALS ice - bucket phenomenon.

CCA has launched more than half a dozen new products in the last few months, including Barista Bros iced coffee, Zico coconut water, Grinders coffee pods, Perfect Fruit — a frozen fruit whip — and new bottled water brands that sell at a discount to Mount Franklin's, and enable the company to compete against the cheap private - label water filling supermarket shelves.

Everyone agrees it is one of a few dozen meteorites that we know came from Mars; it was bounced off that planet by a larger meteorite 16 million years ago and eventually fell onto the Antarctic ice.

She'd tried dozens of crazy diets through the years, «even starving myself — quite literally — and then after a few days of that, bingeing on bowls of ice cream,» she says.

Walking along the narrow cobblestone Rue Saint - Jean today, you will mostly see small cafes, English - style pubs, restaurants and few dozen or so ice cream shops catering to the masses of visitors that descend upon the city during the summer months and the city's large University population.

I had the opportunity, with one other reporter, to accompany scientists to a research camp set up on the drifting sea ice a few dozen miles from the point at which everything else is south.

The song took on new meaning for me in 2003, when I accompanied a team of climate and ocean researchers on their annual expedition aimed at studying changes in the Arctic Ocean beneath the shifting sea ice just a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

I start by noting some of the unnerving situations I've been in while reporting about climate change and related issues — sitting with a murderous cattle rancher on his porch deep in the Amazon rain forest, camping on cracking sea ice floating on the 14,000 - foot - deep Arctic Ocean a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

But most of the dozen or so ice scientists I've consulted of late (and several dozen since 2000) remain closer in their views to Cecilia Bitz of the University of Washington, who recently agreed with my notion (as a longtime, but lay, observer) that there's «a 50 - 50 chance it will take a few decades.»

The autonomous camera that took these images was placed on the ice a few dozen miles from the North Pole in early spring, but has since drifted hundreds of miles.

To see just how fast Arctic sea ice can shift, have a look at these photos, which I took just a few hours apart, showing a «lead» — a stretch of open water — that opened a few dozen yards from the Russian base camp serving tourists and scientists near the Pole.

At least a dozen polar bears that besieged a remote Russian weather station on an island in the Kara Sea during the first two weeks of September prompted a few media pundits to suggest that loss of summer sea ice due to global warming may be forcing polar bears to hunt humans for food.

A few bears usually visit this station each summer when the sea ice leaves — but this year there were more than a dozen bears rather than a few.

Meanwhile, fewer than a dozen small ice shelves floating on «warm» waters (seawater only a few degrees above the freezing point) produced half of the total melt water during the same period.