Sentences with phrase «hasten melting»

Smoke from the fires is lofting high into the atmosphere, and is drifting toward the Arctic, where soot can hasten the melting of snow and sea ice.

Such conditions will not only hasten melting of ice formed the previous winter but, independently of that process, will also increase the apparent area of open water by rafting and compacting small, isolated ice floes.

And when soot falls on snow or ice, as in the Arctic, its ability to trap heat from the sun helps hasten melting.

Mysterious under - snow lakes pockmarking its edges and deep layers of ice at higher elevations both point to changes that could hasten melt and send water cascading into the ocean, pushing global sea levels ever higher.

A diet rich in protein changes the insulin response in your body, which hastens the melting of fat, and visceral fat, that deep layer of fat, is easier for your body to burn than the subcutaneous fat under your skin (the fat that you can see and grab).

The «dark ice» in turn absorbs sunlight and hastens melting.

However, the impact of strong individual storms may be different — the 2012 event appears to have temporarily boosted ice loss by breaking up the ice cover, with the wave action tending to mix warmer waters from below to hasten melt.

The team writes in Nature journal that the canyon is bringing more warm sea water to the ice sheet, hastening melt.

Some specks may even end up coating ice in the frozen extremes of the planet, dulling their pristine surfaces, and hastening the melt of glaciers and ice - caps.

I also wonder, though, what role soot (from any source) may have played in darkening the surface of some glaciers and hence hastened their melt rate.

Not exact matches

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and climatologists realised years ago that melting permafrost would hasten global warming.

Other microbes or contaminants might also hasten glacial melt.

35 Melting Permafrost May Rev Up Global Warming Defrosting could release nearly 1,000 gigatons of carbon and hasten global warming...

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Foreboding winds of change are blowing over the already gale - swept South Pole, threatening to hasten Antarctic melting and worsen flooding around the globe.

If the volcano erupts, the molten rock will melt the base of the ice, hastening the ice sheet's break - up (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/p45).

The warming of oceans and the melting of ice sheet and glaciers, particularly in Antarctica and Greenland, have contributed to the hastening sea level rise.

Higher methane concentrations in the atmosphere will accelerate global warming and hasten local changes in the Arctic, speeding up sea - ice retreat, reducing the reflection of solar energy and accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

According to researchers, heavy rains are bad news as they contribute to faster ice melts in the Arctic, consequently hastening the rise of sea levels.

The same basic divisions — said in hundreds of different ways in dozens of meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital — have stalled any significant move to combat climate change, though it is already affecting farm output worldwide; adding to uncertainty over freshwater availability; hastening glacier melt; raising sea levels; and making storms, floods and droughts more frequent and more severe.