Sentences with phrase «ice floes for»

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.

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

The voyage nonetheless left its mark on history when the captain and crew were forced to abandon ship and live on an ice floe for 196 days in the middle of the Arctic winter.

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In fact, four ScanEagles used in Afghanistan have now been repurposed for ConocoPhillips, which uses them to track mammal migration and ice floes in Alaska under a restricted FAA license.

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.

Orcas are known for throwing themselves onto beaches, sandbars, or ice floes to grab victims, or for smashing into floating ice to knock potential prey into the water.

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Often photographed clinging to Arctic ice floes as its habitat melts away into warming waters, the polar bear is the poster child for U.S. efforts to save wildlife on the brink of extinction using the Endangered Species Act.

Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it's sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of a fiery underworld, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest chefs.

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).

... 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.

The ice concentration of the small floes was about 10 to 30 percent and the mini-icebergs jutting out of the water by about one meter provided for a situation which was mastered by the modern multipurpose heavy lift project carriers being built with ice class E3 and the experience of the captains.

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

While shippers have for centuries dreamed of sending cargo over the top of the world --- a huge shortcut compared to other long - distance sea routes — Pablo Clemente - Colón, the chief scientist at the National Ice Center, said the open water in the passages over Russia, particularly, remains clotted with thick dangerous floes and also can close up in a matter of hours.

Although I've not been able to find enough to get a broad view of the Arctic, and some data such as Buoys suffers from an observational bias — more substantial floes of ice are chose for the placement of buoys.

The need for «sweating the details in climate discourse» came up here in 2010, after the journal Science picked a faked image of a polar bear on an ice floe to accompany a letter on the seriousness of global warming from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

(Some people have suggested replacing lost sea ice with artificial floes, but this would be unlikely to work because algae — the basis of the entire food chain that ultimately provides seals for the bears — grows only on real ice.)

I know the extent is often and widely bandied about, but that figure is deceptive, because it doesn't account for the open water between ice - floes.

For some years now we have been exposed to mournful photographs of polar bears floating away on ice floes, or otherwise appearing endangered... The theory on which polar bears are supposed to be endangered because their environment is becoming more benign has never been entirely clear, nor has there been data to support the claim that their populations are declining.

They were, of course, stuck for three days in their little catamaran, after they had found a sturdy looking ice floe to weather out the storm.

There is still the possibility of an ice arch forming north of the strait (similar to 2009) or a large floe blocking one of the passageways for a brief period.

But Adelie Penguins winter on ice floes north of the Antarctic Circle during the winter, and Ainely agrees warming winter trends on land have no biological significance for Adelies.

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For years, an iconic picture of a polar bear on an ice floe was used to frighten children into clutching their stuffed teddy bears and demanding Mommy and Daddy act to save them.

JF As an exercise for the reader, have a look at melting ice floe images and count up how many show a tail of obviously smoothed water across the water surface nearby.

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.

While International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) information had indicated much of this ice might survive the summer, the latest ice age map provided by J. Maslanik (Figure 5), shows that the tongue of old ice has mostly melted away, except for some isolated floes.