Sentences with phrase «in icy seas»

Many mammals that swim in icy seas rely on blubber, like walruses, wales, and porpoises.

Lots of swimming in icy seas may have helped bears evolve to eat a high - fat diet yet remain healthy.

Not exact matches

In December the five of us traveled to the Vail Mountain Lodge and Spa for a weekend of skiing for the big kids and my husband, and mountain adjustment for baby and I. Even though we live at 5280, a mile above sea level, it's still an adjustment for everyone, especially when the air is icy and crisp.

Titan's seas are named for mythical sea monsters, and its icy mountains, like the one shown here, are named after the mountains in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.

The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor — an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

A subsurface sea of water might hide beneath the icy crust of Dione, one of Saturn's moons, researchers report online October 9 in Geophysical Research Letters.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

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.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

A robot surveying the underside of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has made a startling discovery: Clinging upside - down from crannies in the ice shelf with their tentacles dangling into the icy water were thousands and thousands of tiny sea anemones.

The researchers also found fish that swim upside down, marine worms that live in the icy melt, crustaceans called amphipods and a strange creature resembling a sea cucumber, which they nicknamed «the eggroll.»

It also found a vast saltwater ocean under the icy shell of Europa, fanning fantasies of extraterrestrials coming to life in those seas.

In its final pass through the liquid plumes of the icy moon, Cassini found molecular hydrogen, indicating favourable conditions for life in the moon's subsurface seIn its final pass through the liquid plumes of the icy moon, Cassini found molecular hydrogen, indicating favourable conditions for life in the moon's subsurface sein the moon's subsurface sea.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

Thus Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) and his sister Katara (Nicola Peltz), members of the Water Tribe, are startled by Aang (Noah Ringer), a 12 - year - old airbender who emerges from an icy embryo in the sea near their village.

You'll traverse deserts, underwater areas, icy seas, and even fight up in the clouds.

trapped in the icy jaws of the White Sea, to the north of Muscovy, and his men had frozen to death in an Arctic blizzard.

The Labrador Retriever gets its name from the Labrador sea in Canada, this was where they were used retrieve the fisherman nets from the icy water.

WILD POLLOCK OIL FROM THE ARCTIC WATERS OF ALASKA Living in the pristine, icy cold waters of the Bering Sea, wild Alaskan Pollock is an excellen...

WILD POLLOCK OIL FROM THE ARCTIC WATERS OF ALASKA Living in the pristine, icy cold waters of the Bering Sea, wild Alaskan Pollock is an excellent and sustainable natural source of fish oil rich in Omega - 3 fatty acids.

Icy waters, the speed that inclement weather systems can move in from the Gulf of Alaska, and the remote wilderness solitude add further to the advanced sea kayaking environment of Alaska.

Float the day away in the warm Caribbean Sea while sipping on Icy Cold Belikins... There aren't too many things more relaxing than this!

Specially - designed ships cruise through the iced - over waters, churning through the slabs of salt water with an almighty roar, before pausing in the heart of the icy sea for a pit stop and a photo opportunity.

Their lips hang open in frozen stupidity, as fish tend to look when they lie flat on the icy beds of outdoor fish markets, and their circular arrangement is somehow haunting in its evocation of the wine - dark future of our rubbish - littered seas.

The landscape, which simulates an icy sea, is generated by a daily data feed of air temperatures in Qaanaaq, Greenland.

Cross's Antarctica (2005) is a monochromatic film rendered in negative showing a group of deep sea divers in the icy, crystal waters of Antarctica.

NEW YORK — Arctic sea - ice extent shrank to an unprecedented low this summer, part of a long - term decline in the icy white cap over the far northern ocean.

The group found that the icy winds blowing off Antarctica, as well as a powerful ocean current that circles the frozen continent, are much larger factors in the formation and persistence of Antarctic sea ice than changes in temperature.

The melting of these sprawling icy giants will affect global sea levels in the centuries ahead.

The book described how later in the season some high spots became dry and these were little hillocks in a sea of icy water sitting on solid ice.

We're leaving Europe's shoreline now, though it would have extended farther west back in the icy periods when the sea level was a lot lower because ice sheets locked up so much water.

But the opening up of the Northern Sea Route comes just as the icy relations between the United States and Russia appear to be warming up, and a new trade deal between the two nations could be in the works.

And as inhabitants of the northern hemisphere dig themselves out of an especially icy and snowy winter and Arctic sea ice rebounds, it may all be in part linked to low solar activity as many scientific studies have long suggested.

An ancient catastrophe that killed half of the marine species in the oceans - and swept the land clear for the dinosaurs to dominate - may have been tied to icy - methane crystals buried in sea - sediments.

The on board scientists involved the whole crew in ocean experiments that monitored these seas - revealing the information and secrets locked under this cold and icy surface.

Starting in February and continuing through the year to the following January, Safina follows the shift of animals and annual events all over the world, from the icy Arctic to the overly warm Caribbean seas.