Sentences with phrase «from cracks in the ice»

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A crack has formed across a section of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking it away from the continent.

Recent radar mapping of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (top left) reveal that a new crack (right in both inset and white section of diagram) has forked from a long fissure that cuts across the ice shelf.

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

The photograph shows cracks in ice near the Ferrigno and Alison ice streams in Antarctica seen from the IceBridge DC - 8, Oct. 25, 2012.

Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.

The Russian and American scientists have never before experienced anything of such magnitude, and in addition to powerful emissions from shallow waters where over 100 readings were recorded, it is spewing up from within cracks in the Arctic ice in the open seas far from land.

There, plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered, jetting out from cracks in its surface.

If the cracks in the pads are minor you can apply petroleum jelly to prevent ice and snow from balling up in between the dog's pads and refreezing.

Dogs with badly cracked pads should not walk on snow or ice in winter without boots or protection - as the salt from sidewalks or roads can be agony in a deep crack.

Nintendo EAD, the game's closeted, Tokyo - based crack team of inventors may have retreated from the buckshot heavens once explored in the Wii's Super Mario Galaxy titles, settling once again on terra firma (even if, predictably enough, it's often covered in ice or lava)-- but what a world.

Seen from the front, these flat surfaces resemble vintage formica countertops decorated in psychedelic patterns reminiscent of cracked ice.

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.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

The same for the possibility that CO2 escapes from ice cores via cracks, while the outside world has CO2 levels 100 - 200 ppmv higher than measured in the core.

This would be fundamentally different from events in the past where a crack in the ice might temporarily expose some open water at the pole in the midst of surrounding ice.

The dominant ice - determining factors of the Arctic have shifted several ways, from the dominance of winds around 2000, to new patterns of cracking, to 70 % drop in volume in a quarter century, to new circulations.

From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit.

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

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