Sentences with phrase «growing ice fields»

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A growing concern in recent years, however, is the risk, even to children with healthy lungs, posed by environmental pollutants - particularly fine and ultra-fine particulates - at playing on fields built near busy highways and at indoor ice rinks.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

On - board, he's trying to impress a top chef from one of Newport's most exclusive restaurants — and his pontoon boat is stuck in a field of slushy ice not even halfway out into the lagoon where he grows oysters.

Hence, when the air temperature decreases, ice and snow fields grow, and this continues until an equilibrium is reached.

Right now, the glaciers are still losing ice at their tails as their heads grow, and the ice fields are still losing ice at their edges as new ice falls on top.

Oh — and both the Arctic and Antarctic ice fields are growing big, big, big... But never mind -LSB-...]