Sentences with phrase «locked polar waters»
The impacts from a changing climate also loom, from potentially shifting the abundance and distribution of essential prey species to melting previously ice - locked polar waters that will expose whales to even more human activity.
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Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.
The planet today is dry and barren, with most of its water locked up in the polar ice caps.
They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.
97 percent of the water on Earth is salt water, contained in the planet's oceans, seas, and inland salt water bodies, 2 percent of it (fresh water) is locked in the polar ice caps, and the remaining 1 percent is the fresh water we use everyday.