Sentences with phrase «icy continent»

Now if we POLLUTE the vast icy continent with salt water, we will surely start a massive melting of the ice cap.

Indeed, the world's fifth - largest icy continent has attracted the hardiest explorers.

But roughly 91 percent of Antarctica — nearly twice the size of Australia — is unmapped, and the largest unsurveyed region on the icy continent is a region called Princess Elizabeth Land.

The West Antarctic ice sheet, the smaller of the icy continent's two giant slabs of ancient ice, is moored to an archipelago of islands, many of them below sea level.

For the lower - altitude fringes of the icy continent, and for the rest of the world (even Siberia and Greenland), the greenhouse effect still works as expected.

While the reduced depletion was due mostly to higher temperatures on the icy continent, scientists are hopeful that the chemical levels have dropped enough that the result is a shrinkage of the ozone hole each season.

Lake Vostok, about the size of Lake Ontario, is the largest lake on the icy continent.

It is the first known transmission of a «foreign» disease to wildlife on the icy continent.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

And the hole, in turn, stunned meteorologists when it reached down to boost the ring of wind encircling the icy continent.

The world's best Antarctic scientists say we can not ignore the icy continent.

Temperatures have frequently averaged well over 10 degrees above normal on the icy continent, and the extent of Arctic sea ice has set record lows most months.

Unbroken by major landmasses, Antarctica's ocean currents race around the icy continent with powerful force.

Here, he meets many scientists there who are working on a range of climate - related issues, analysing the data they have gathered from past expeditions to the icy continent.

#Antartica2020 therefore represents a future for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean that keeps the icy continent a place of environmental protection, peace and science.