Sentences with phrase «ice shelf lies»
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Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.
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Previous work has estimated that more than a trillion tonnes of methane lie under the shelf, trapped inside lattices of ice known as hydrates, at depths as shallow as 20 metres.
The station lies at 71 ° 57» S and 23 ° 20» E, 220 km due South from the edge of the ice shelf.
In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.
, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.
The extent to which this will happen in the future depends, crucially, on how warm the sea - water lying under the ice - shelves is.
The video ends with a very troubling fact: In the 2 years since «A Beautiful Lie» was released, nearly a fourth of the arctic ice shelf has disappeared.