Sentences with phrase «last ice area»

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is known as the «last ice area» and was thought to be a long - term safe haven for the polar bear.

In all likelihood, however, there will be few people in the Last Ice Area.

Read some of my favorite conservation stories: The Problem With «Shoot to Kill» Conservation Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List Taking a Close Look at the «Last Ice Area» Does Protecting Endangered Rhinos Conflict With Traditional Chinese Medicine?

In the Last Ice Area, the small remaining populations of these species will be forced together along a narrow strip of sea ice.

With such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grounds.

«If human - driven climate change continues unabated, the last ice areas will ultimately disappear, and the remaining wild bears with them,» he says.

Not exact matches

However, people have also been coming to the mall since Monday for a different purpose, thanks to last weekend's ice storm knocking out power in many Toronto - area homes.

Fleming also said that the utilities that serve the area were slow to replace downed transmission lines and that the town had experienced significant power outrages in recent years, including one that lasted almost a week during an ice storm a few years ago.

Some 20,000 years ago, it was a different story: Earth was in the grip of the last ice age, and raccoon dogs were stuck in a small area of east Asia.

«This finding provides evidence of the seafaring people who inhabited this area during the tail end of the last major ice age.»

Sugden's team found evidence that the moraines had been forming for at least 200,000 years, suggesting that ice has covered the area for at least that long (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2011.01.027), and therefore survived the last interglacial 125,000 years ago.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

In the last three years, the sea ice's extent - the ocean area in which a defined minimum of sea ice can be found — was at its lowest in the 30 - year satellite record.

As the Arctic sea - ice reaches its summer minimum extent, it is clear that it has yet again shrunk to one of the smallest areas in recent decades, 10 % above the record minimum set last year.

Some 20,000 years ago, Earth was in the grip of the last ice age, and raccoon dogs were confined to a small area of east Asia.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

Archaeological evidence, including many cave paintings, indicates that a sizeable population lived in the Basque area when the last Ice Age was drawing to its close.

you mentioned in last table that most (90 %)» ice sheet area is temperate - based, with which I agree.

When the ice sheet retracted from northern Europe following the last ice age around 23,000 years ago, new habitable areas emerged, allowing plants and animals to recolonize the Scandinavian peninsula.

The caves in the limestone gorge of Creswell Crags have provided archaeologists with important evidence of human activity towards the end of the last Ice Age when the area was right at the edge of the ice sheIce Age when the area was right at the edge of the ice sheice sheet.

The Capital Region largely sits on clay and silt deposited by a lake that swallowed the area during the last Ice Age, said Andrew Kozlowski, an associate state geologist at the State Museum and director of the state Geologic Mapping Program.

Germany • Swabian Jura, one of the areas where modern humans first arrived during the last ice age in Europe 43,000 years ago, which includes six caves that contain items dating from 43,000 to 33,000 years ago.

The limestone walls of the hole were formed during the last Ice Age when water levels in the area were much lower.

If significant area becomes an ablation zone, then once the previous winters snow has melted, the surface is composed of old ice, which every year becomes older than the last.

The last La Nina ended 15 months ago, yet we've had a recovery in global sea ice area and no increase in surface warming.

Last summer, he spotted several new islands in an area where a massive ice shelf had broken up.

He completely dismisses all other explanations for the ice - age - periods during the last half billion years than the passing of our solar system through areas with higher production of cosmic rays when it rotates around the center of our galaxy.

The three regions with a most notorious sea ice area reduction in the summer last year were the East Siberian Sea Ice Area, the Chukchi Sea Ice Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice Arice area reduction in the summer last year were the East Siberian Sea Ice Area, the Chukchi Sea Ice Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice Aarea reduction in the summer last year were the East Siberian Sea Ice Area, the Chukchi Sea Ice Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice ArIce Area, the Chukchi Sea Ice Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice AArea, the Chukchi Sea Ice Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice ArIce Area and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice AArea and the Arctic Basin Sea Ice ArIce AreaArea.

The article in The Independent makes its predictions based on the increased speed of reduction of the Sea Ice Area compared to last year.

How can anybody have much confidence in the so called «published projections» for the ice free state between 2037 and 2100, given that these projections have been wrong every single time they have been made over the last decade or more; they missed the collapse in area in 2007 and they also missed the exponentially declining behavior over the last several decades.

In addition, some land areas are rising and some are subsiding in response to the end of the last Ice Age or due to local anthropogenic processes (e.g. groundwater withdrawal), which local planners need to account for.

So that, while the surface area may be greater this year compared with last year, the volume of ice in the Arctic this year is probably already less than at the same time last year.

As I expect kim will comment about the coming Ice Age, please note that the Arctic sea ice is at just about the same point it was this time last year; however, the area covered by snow in Asia has decreased substantialIce Age, please note that the Arctic sea ice is at just about the same point it was this time last year; however, the area covered by snow in Asia has decreased substantialice is at just about the same point it was this time last year; however, the area covered by snow in Asia has decreased substantially.

It's also worth noting that the area of sea ice coverage is influenced by the wind, and the rapid area loss of last summer was mainly wind - driven — but thin sea ice is more sensitive to wind forcing than thick sea ice is.

It seems as if, for some time to come, there will still be seasonal ice in the area of the northern Canadian Arctic Islands and Greenland where the last of the ice appears likely to continue to be and that is the area that most of us project as a potential refugium.

bozzza @ 424, The Antarctic sea ice area anomaly has gone negative in the last couple of days, the first time that has happened in four years.

During the last ice age, ice was miles thick in extensive areas.

One of the interesting things looking at sea ice from cryosphere today, is how rare it is now for ice to form in much of the Baltic (last year was the first year in a long time that it got very far south) and other peripheral areas.

Also see: The Area Of Thick Arctic Ice Has Doubled In The Last Two Years

Satellite observations made from 1979 to 2016 show that the annual sea ice season in the greater Station Obama area has become 3 - 4 months shorter over the last 38 years.

The red, yellow and green areas in the ice thickness chart are the last vestiges of sea ice thicker than 2.75 meters in the entire Arctic.

The load of ice in the area during the last glacial maximum would have added significant pressure to the crust below.

Aqua measures the total area of sea covered by the ice, and by that measure the 2007 record low was broken for 10 days early last month.

This does cover the Bering Stait / Chukchi Sea area and shows current sea ice as WELL ABOVE that of all the last 10,000 years except the LIA ANOMALY.

An announcement by the WWF last week (10 April) caught my eye, as it talked about bears moving from one area to another because of changing ice conditions — as if this was surprising, extraordinary and newsworthy.

That water could warm up during the summer months because the area is ice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice Aice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice AIce Age.

Translated by Google from this press release in German at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany: Never so much sea ice at Antarctica in the last 30 years In light of global warming, it seems paradoxical that the sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean has covered a larger area in the past month than...

Landfast ice disintegrated somewhat later (about one week) in the region than last year, but was already unstable and unsafe in many areas prior to that.

When pointed out that, in the Antarctic, there are many places where there is increased ice pack over the last few decades, even if some shelf here or there falls into the ocean, we are told that the mass isn't as important as the area.

Not only does this low - pressure area, or cyclone, look bigger, more intense and longer - lasting than the one from last year, the ice also seems to be in a weaker state than ever, as evidenced by the fact that 2012 trend lines on both sea ice area and sea ice extent graphs track lower than previous record years, despite weather that until recently would completely stall the decline.