Sentences with phrase «ice floes»

There are echoes of this past however, and it was interesting when we included the George Bellows painting of ice floes in the Hudson River on the top floor, because that piece harkens a little bit to aspects of late 19th - century art and the age of American Impressionism, with artists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.

For example, one new study shows that the melt ponds that form on top of sea ice floes in June and July can dramatically accelerate sea ice melt.

These events made the ice pack vulnerable to accelerated melt, both through solar heating of open water and by melting of ice floes from warm ocean waters mixed into the sea ice field by the storm.

In February and March 2015, scientists studying the highly dynamic, thinning Arctic drift ice north of Svalbard were forced to evacuate their ice camp several times as ice floes broke up under their feet.

Zhang, J., A. Schweiger, M. Steele, and H. Stern, Sea ice floe size distribution in the marginal ice zone: Theory and numerical experiments, J. Geophys.

Distressing images of polar bears on melting ice floes are everywhere, and indeed, satellites have confirmed that ice is covering less and less of the Arctic Ocean.

During the rest of the two - month tracking period, the bear intermittently swam and walked on ice floes for another 1,200 miles.

Once inside, a spill can travel with ice floes.

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore.

Giant tabular icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay on January 11, 2008 in the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Giant icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay, Antarctica.

To understand a puzzle that has been confounding scientists in recent years, researchers need to know not only the spatial extent of the ice, but also how thick it is, which is tricky to estimate from satellite data alone or from scant point measurements taken by drilling into ice floes.

Polar bears must swim farther out to sea in search of ice floes where they hunt; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning

... Researchers estimate the melt pond in the picture was just over 2 feet deep and a few hundred feet wide, which is not unusual for an Arctic ice floe in late July.

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Finally, when the coast was clear, the seal was able to safely swim off to another, more secure ice floe.

Fish can survive even in subzero environments, such as under ice floes.

As a documentary, you could argue its construction is somewhat perfunctory, and its cinematic qualities relatively sparse (barring some impressive footage of ice floes at the beginning) but it is nonetheless filled with interesting information that illustrates the struggle Gore is fighting.

Pictures of stranded polar bears perched on crumbling ice floes, seemingly all - at - sea in the face of global warming, inevitably grab the attention.

There is a sub-plot that accompanies Anno's typically insipid RTS - lite elements in which you pilot a fleet of battleships around ice floes and islands blowing up moon terrorists and completing fetch quests for fellow CEOs (whose own battle fleets must be having their MOTs).

Yet the katabatic winds which blow off West Greenland are sufficient to drive ice floes away from the shore, and to induce a northwards ocean current along the coast.

The evocative imagery of a young boy with a laptop in front a rug depicting a lone polar bear on a ever shrinking ice floe has prompted various reactions...

New environments like ice floes and acid - drenched caves provided refreshing new stages for many a shootout.

But there's nothing conventional about exploration in the Arctic; scarce daylight for much of the year, a hostile climate and ocean variously covered by solid sea ice and amorphous, moving ice floes, all make surface navigation and even aerial surveying dangerous, inefficient and vastly expensive.

The surrender of the whole universe to the physical sciences, represented by A. J. Ayer in philosophy (and by others in medicine and psychology) was a loud, daring little ice floe that tried to pull the glacier with it, failed, and fell into the sea.

In Great Falls who should turn up firing jumpers from a nearby ice floe but Cazzie Russell, the ex-Knick, ex-Laker, ex-Warrior, ex-Bull and current all - round ageless wonder now performing for the Montana Sky.

A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

Residents in the historic Stockade neighborhood on the Mohawk River woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday night.

The bears» feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

From lush rainforests and alligator - infested swamps to freezing ice floes, Extreme Exposures vividly shows how some of the world's most challenging environments are also some of its most beautiful.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.

When geographical barriers — such as rising sea levels or retracting ice floes — separate populations, they may develop genetic, physiological, or behavioral differences; changes in chromosome structure or number; differently shaped genitalia; or incompatible mating times and rituals — any of which can prevent successful reproduction.

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This is riveting adventure drawn from the diaries and firsthand accounts of the scientists and crew on the ship trapped in a giant ice floe.

Veteran naturalists such as author Stefan Lundgren lead hikes past penguin colonies, Zodiac land excursions, and kayak tours through ice floes, where you'll spot leopard seals and the occasional orca.

She defeats Rundas, and he is killed by one of his own ice floes.

Guide both characters in single - player mode or play cooperatively with a friend or family member as you trek through frozen tundra, leap across treacherous ice floes, swim through underwater ice caverns, and face numerous enemies both strange and familiar in the journey to save the girl's village.

Sometimes they resemble ice floes drifting within a monochromatic or pointillist continuum, or swollen vermicelli sinking in a primordial soup.

Lightning, volcanoes, geysers and ice floes possess hellish glory whose terror is facilely reduced to quaintness.

We see that he was equally skilled at painting a lush garden and the sea covered with jagged ice floes.

The artist had been thinking about the sculpture of Richard Serra when he made House of Cards, and also of Caspar David Friedrich's 1823 - 4 Sea of Ice (also known as The Wreck of Hope), a painting of jumbled arctic ice floes.

A week later around the 10th of Jan. 1985, I was climbing over ice floes on the shore of Grand Haven Michigan, watching pot ice form in the Grand River.