Sentences with phrase «into sea»

As climate change warms Greenland and more ice melts and makes its way into the sea, the ice sheet is potentially becoming a more important source of nutrients, he said.

In this respect, the «psychic» who regularly liven up the press in the New Year — at least in the US — with predictions that California will fall into the sea, the president will be abducted by aliens and some film star will give birth at the age of 65, evidently understand their audience better than the astrologers.

This killed plants, and soil was stripped by rainfall and washed into the sea.

More than three years earlier, after an earthquake and tsunamis battered Japan's eastern coast, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station blew, blasting radiation into the sea and sky.

In all, about 20 pieces of debris were estimated to fall into the sea, according to South Korean officials monitoring the launch.

Now Bartholomaus and his team are investigating what happens when this advancing glacier meets the ocean in a region where about 54 glaciers empty into the sea.

They draw down carbon into sea - bed sediments and circulate ocean nutrients.

Fertilized limpet eggs released into the sea drift through the larval stage of growth, eventually finding home and adhering to the seabed to join a benthos community.

Beyond the iceberg maze loomed the nose of a glacier that, contrary to a warming climate, is advancing into the sea.

So an upland place like San Francisco will be eroded, and the fragments will wash into the sea.

For Bolch, the different measurement values depend on the amounts of meltwater that remain on the plateau and do not flow away into the sea — and which his team has now managed to measure accurately for the first time.

CLIMATE CALAMITIES As ice shelves on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula weaken, glaciers flow faster into the sea.

Where the river emptied into the sea, a wide fan of debris turned the waters brown.

«Initial indications are that the first stage of the missile fell into the sea 165 km west of Seoul, South Korea.»

The sun melted the wax, and he fell into the sea.

In all four, the trenches are full to the brim with contaminated water, and threaten to overflow, potentially emptying into the sea about 50 metres away.

The early Falcon 9 booster landing attempts were over the open ocean, with the rockets either slamming into the sea hard, or hovering over the waves before tipping over.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates the plant, says that contamination spilling into the sea almost certainly originates from reactor 2, and that work to plug it could take months.

Plus, this cofferdam effort preempted an ROV effort using sonar and acoustic sensors that would have more precisely measured the flow of oil and natural gas into the sea.

Even when BP began pumping oil and gas through a line from the blowout preventer to the Q4000 well - servicing ship — at Garwin's suggestion — the flow of oil into the sea remained undiminished.

If that same large body of rock and debris were to gain momentum and take the form of a gigantic landslide — separating itself from the rest of the volcano and sliding rapidly into the sea — the consequences would be devastating.

They poured 13 kilograms of a white powder into the trench, expecting it to emerge at the outlet into the sea.

In the Puget Sound, farmers cultivate mussels by setting out wooden rafts with long ropes that fall into the sea.

Others think Atlantis is Spartel Island, a mud shoal in the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the sea 11,500 years ago.

But because spring now comes sooner, says Daniel Cayan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, the snow is already melting days to weeks earlier — and could start running off uselessly into the sea instead of being available when the state needs it most.

All over the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from Alaska to the Andes, ice is melting and flowing into the sea.

AS THE Earth warms, so its surface ice melts into the sea: true in the past, and true in the future.

When salt - rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks into the sea and can occasionally create an eerie finger of ice called a brinicle.

No such lakes have been found under the Greenland ice and the hidden canyon may be partly responsible: meltwater would swiftly run down it and into the sea.

Banning the practice of throwing unmarketable or over-quota fish back into the sea is just one of the measures needed to deliver sustainable fisheries according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

Nutrients would pour down off the increasingly denuded land into the sea, triggering massive algal blooms, which would exhaust the water of oxygen and threaten fish.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

The irrigation system was so leaky that many canals lost more than 50 percent of the diverted river water en route to the fields, which cut the amount flowing into the sea.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

But the fact that fish can no longer be thrown back into the sea will not automatically make their exploitation any more sustainable because we show that there is no significant incentive to avoid catching them.

The bagpipe, however, was another story, and when a Scottish member of the expedition began to play the national instrument, the Adélies «fled in terror and plunged back into the sea,» according to photographer Frank Hurley.

Approximately half of the fish caught in marine fisheries are thrown back into the sea, but very few survive.

Gibraltar's rubbish, which used to be thrown into the sea, is now incinerated and the heat produced by the furnaces is used to evaporate seawater.

The slipperiness helps determine how quickly the ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

Despite the fact contaminated water was dumped into the sea after the disaster, studies by Japanese and foreign labs have shown radioactive cesium in fish caught in the region has fallen and is now within Japan's food safety limits.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

After the mercifully uninhabited island had exploded into the stratosphere and collapsed into the sea, making what Winchester says was the loudest noise ever heard by human beings, all Watson had to worry about was a thick coat of ash and mud on his deck and rigging — no injuries to his crew, no serious damage to the Charles Bal.

The oldest diatom fossils are about 140 million years old, leading some scientists to speculate that they evolved along with the ascent of terrestrial grasses, which released silica into the sea after separating it from minerals.

A few hours earlier, the South African salvage expert had admitted to journalists that even after 14 months of preparation, he was still unsure if the wreck would remain intact during the recovery operation or split open, spilling a soup of rotting food, clothes and furniture into the sea.

An asteroid striking land would be catastrophic, but the damage might be far worse if it crashed into the sea

From time to time, pieces break off the edge and crash into the sea below, where they float away in the ocean as icebergs.

This process began in 1286 when a huge storm swept much of the settlement into the sea and silted up the Dunwich River.

«On the one hand the Colorado River flowed all the way into the Sea of Cortez this year, it brings a tear to my eye.»

But what happens as all this meltwater pours into the sea may surprise you.

But at this site and a few even older ones, no portion of the ship itself survives, and it is hard to determine whether the pottery came from a wreck, was simply thrown overboard, or washed into the sea from the nearby coast.