Sentences with phrase «lost bulwark»

Working in remote conditions, researchers in the winter of 2012 ran a drill through 450 meters of ice and 500 meters of ocean to collect seafloor sediments on either side of this lost bulwark.

Its disappearance, driven by warming waters and rising air temperatures, means the region is losing a bulwark against even more dramatic sea ice loss.

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Deforestation, which had been on decline for years, surged nearly 300 % in September; and it happened as evidence mounts that healthy forests — arguably nature's single most effective bulwark against climate change — can lose more carbon than they absorb if subjected to extreme drought.