Sentences with phrase «ice moves away»

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Europe and America are moving away from one another; the Scandinavian countries, once weighed down by enormous sheets of ice, are now rising.

In fact, their satellite tracking revealed that those bears that continued to den on ice tended to shift their dens eastwards, moving away from the western regions where the ice was thinning faster.

Understanding Antarctic climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away from southern Australia.

When Ayerst moved its labs to Princeton, N.J., and Sehgal moved with them, the researcher was supposed to throw away the samples of the bacterium but he kept them in his freezer, next to his ice cream, according to a Bloomberg story.

When I moved away from home to go to college at 18, the freedom to eat whatever I wanted quickly spiraled out of control — I'm talking ice cream and chips with salsa and Nutella - topped toast for breakfast.

With Ice Cream Sandwich, Google is moving away from hardware buttons, as the Galaxy Nexus does not feature the usual array of Android home buttons and instead relies completely on software based buttons for navigation.

The retreat of the Arctic sea ice in recent decades is moving the egdge of the sea ice away from the areas of deep water formation and I would have thought that this would contribute to a weakening of amoc south of Greenland.

I saw the photo, and I wanted calculate how far is 400 yds / hr ~ 0.22 miles / hr ~ 82.95 mi / year ~ 37.5 years, and the north pole will be in Philadelphia:) I'm guess that the ice floats around the north pole and it doesn't move a straight line away from the «true» north pole... right?

So what did you base your contention @ 223 on that:»... geological studies clearly show that the tectonic plates between the eastern and western antarctic ice sheets have been moving (away from each other causing volcanic emission) at an increasing rate.»

There are three vehicle electrification steps moving away from conventional internal combustion engines (ICEs): hybridization (e.g. the Prius), range extended electric vehicles (e.g. the Chevy Volt), and full EVs (e.g. Tesla or the new Chevy Bolt)

Only if you add that he's living at the North Pole today, but planning on moving away because the ice and snow there are all melting because people are driving SUVs.

Another point is that there is no point in trying to bury CO2 snow in ordinary snow or ice because snow and ice moves and blows away.

What I do know, is that Geologically speaking, we are still in an ice - age (inter-glacial period, but still an ice age as we currently have ice - caps), so I know for a fact that earthly life as a whole will be quite happy once we have moved away from the unusually cold climate and can return to a warmer and more fruitful climate instead.

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Scientists have long warned that the world needs to quickly move away from fossil fuels in order to mitigate global climate change, but governments with stakes in the Arctic have yet to heed these calls: instead they have viewed less seasonal ice due climate change as a chance to exploit the region for more fossil fuels.

Reports from scientists monitoring the situation indicate that a chuck of ice the size of Manhattan (100 sq. kilometers) is about the fall off, with the suspected cause being at least partially to do with increasing flows of warm water moving up the coast due to the region's changing climate, New Scientist reports.Large chunks of ice break off the Petermann glacier all the time, but with a chunk this size breaking away — this 5 billion tons of ice is about half of the glacier's annual flow — it's unlikely that current rates of snowfall elsewhere on the glacier will be able to make up for it.

As I said at 157, I don't know what the cross-section of the ice is like as you move away from the shoreline, but it is a continuous material with inherent structural characteristics.

Also, southerly winds move ice northward away from the coast.

The group cleverly holds ice cream socials as part of their community outreach to educate youngsters about their vision of moving government funding away from prisons and to agriculture.

«When the ice shrinks, that attraction diminishes — and the sea will move away from that mass.»