Sentences with phrase «ice floes in»

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.

Just a few years ago Polarstern had to navigate up to three meter thick ice floes in this area.

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.

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 other words, no matter what other managers might be thinking, she still sees plenty of room on the ice floe in which to run.

... 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.

These walruses are taking a rest on a small ice floe in the Bering Sea.

Not exact matches

In one ad, McCarthy can be seen floating on an ice floe and in another she can be seen running scared on a safarIn one ad, McCarthy can be seen floating on an ice floe and in another she can be seen running scared on a safarin another she can be seen running scared on a safari.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

The result is that bears must swim further and further out to sea in search of ice floes; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning.

Dear EarthTalk: I read a heart - wrenching story of a polar bear that swam 400 miles with its cub on its back in search of an ice floe to rest on.

After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Locked in the ice on their ship, the Endurance, after a long, dark winter, Ernest Shackleton and his men were gladdened by the sight of Adélies, seals, and whales «disporting themselves in the leads» between ice floes.

Along the floe's drift course southwards from the Pole, we could see in detail at what point the ice began melting.

These thick floes will then be followed by thin ice, which melts faster in the summer.

The team high - fived and hugged when they stuck the first tag onto one of the whales and «just went crazy» when it was still attached to its host's back after a nerve - wracking dive beneath an ice floe, says Ari Friedlaender, a marine mammal ecologist at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, who led the team.

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.

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

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 documentary tells the story of the survival of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of his vessel «The Endurance,» which shipwrecked in the ice floes and frigid ocean of the Antarctic in 1914.

One took place in a opulent Greek setting that wouldn't have looked out of place in older God of War games, while the other is a much more arctic setting, set with a deep cavern behind and ice floes on the other side.

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.

Steller sea lions can be seen on the rocky islands and Harbor seals are often spotted on ice floes and in the bays.

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).

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.

Canada House, London, until 30 November In the region around Floe Edge, where the vast Arctic Ocean meets frozen sea ice, the word «art» translates in Inuktitut as «sanaugait», which taken literally means «things made by hand»In the region around Floe Edge, where the vast Arctic Ocean meets frozen sea ice, the word «art» translates in Inuktitut as «sanaugait», which taken literally means «things made by hand»in Inuktitut as «sanaugait», which taken literally means «things made by hand».

The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

Negative interactions between polar bears and humans, such as bears foraging in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice - floe breakup occurred early and polar bears were relatively thin.

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.

Much more of the Arctic ocean was comprised of individual broken ice floes and the pack ice had holes in it exposing ocean in many places.

This is no easy task given that the ice is not a uniform cap, as it might appear on a chart, but a milling mass of floes that are in near constant motion.

In that case, the report was of the presence of some open water at the pole — which as the correction stated, is not that uncommon as ice floes and leads interact.

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.

The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

From the Archives, Oct. 2, 2009 The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

Imagine being that polar bear, having endured a life - threatening swim created by ever - distant ice floes created by our global warming, only to finally find a nice big chunk of ice where he could finally go fishing, only to confront and be murdered by enemy no. 1: mankind, in this case Icelanders.

Just to give you another example, from my North Pole trip in 2003, here's how I described a moment standing on a shuddering, vibrating ice floe with Jim Osse, who had dived beneath the sea ice to help retrieve a string of instruments recovered after a year anchored to the seabed two and a half miles below:

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

Ice floes lock in the entire region six months a year, making navigation almost impossible.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiIce Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting.

Having vertical structures sticking out of the lake in close proximity to the cliffs will, especially in winter when ice floes collect, change the currents and will possibly increase the rate of erosion.