Sentences with phrase «lost mass»

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have steadily lost mass in two decades, and glaciers are shrinking worldwide.

Only the West Antarctic Peninsula which contains less than 10 % of Antarctic ice has lost mass.

Coby, They claim in one study Greenland's ice sheet lost mass.

Hintereisferner reached an intermittent minimum in 1976, briefly recovered in 1977 and 1978 and has continuously lost mass in the 30 years since then.

The interesting trend is that while Arctic glaciers have lost mass since the end of the LIA the loss has slowed.

Greenland's ice sheet has lost mass at an accelerated rate over the last decade, dumping more ice and fresh water into the ocean.

Bears that successfully killed and ate adult or subadult ringed seals either gained or maintained body mass, whereas bears that only scavenged or showed no evidence of eating lost mass.»

They already lost mass effect.

Yet they still bonus themselves to the tune of millions and have lost mass amounts of money with their hairbrained securitized investment products.

The upper body lost mass and strength, but the legs gained mass and definition.Any idea why this could be the case?

This list was then filtered to remove non-confirmed planets and highly - irradiated planets that may have lost mass.

That allowed them to determine how previously unmeasured glaciers lost their mass, something O'Neel said had never been done before.

Although that is unlikely to happen for many thousands of years, the ice sheet has increasingly lost mass over the last two decades, and the glaciers that serve as its outlet to the sea are accelerating.

These comparisons allowed the researchers to distinguish the effects of lost mass from those of lost tail - wagging on the geckos» movements.

They have to eat tons more of them to make up the lost mass of fatty amphipods.

As this cluster is relatively old, a part of this lost mass will be due to the most massive stars in the cluster having already reached the ends of their lives and exploded as supernovae.

They described how this unique comet lost mass in advance of reaching perihelion and most likely broke up during its closest approach, as well, as summarized what this means for determining what the comet was made of.

For example, Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has lost mass from melting and, in its thinner form, has less weight to speed the flow of its ice toward the sea.

Admittedly, he «melts» for most of the movie and never seems to lose mass, but if you can overlook that foolishness, you might find this really bad movie entertaining.

Not too long ago I thought we heard the jockeys claiming the horses were responsible for this disgraceful failure while one of the horses was bold enough to lay the failure at the doorstep of the jockeys.For me, we lost our masses because we betrayed the values of June 4.

For me, we lost our masses because we betrayed the values of June 4.

For me, we lost our masses because we betrayed the values of the June 4th.

But gravity - measuring satellites have shown that the continent's ice sheets have been losing mass since at least 2002.

STEPHEN HAWKING famously predicted that black holes would «evaporate» away over time, emitting a form of radiation and slowly losing mass until they vanish.

As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»

Although not all the studies agree, most climate scientists argue that, yes, Antarctica is losing mass in a warming world

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

When the two cones break the time reversal symmetry, they induce a Weyl semimetal state in which the electrons lose mass.

Greenland's ice sheet has been losing mass during the past two decades, a phenomenon accelerated by warming temperatures.

Both ice sheets are significantly losing mass, and that affects sea level.

When they reach old age, they puff up and become bigger, cooler and more prone to lose mass in the form of stellar winds.

Such stars are cool, bright, old and lose mass via stellar winds.

Greenland is losing mass from more extensive runoff at lower elevations.

The threatened floating Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, which has been losing mass lost another giant iceberg the size of Manhattan on 16 July, just after the surface melting peaked.

Such a system may help scientists understand matter's behavior when it gains or loses mass or energy.

And even though a surging glacier appears to be expanding, it may be losing mass, its upper reaches collapsing even as its snout thickens temporarily.

However, Pluto's basin is significantly larger than the volume of ice it contains today, suggesting that Pluto's heart has been slowly losing mass over time, almost as if it was wasting away.

Tibet's glaciers are also losing mass clearly, as scientists from the universities of Zurich, Tubingen and Dresden reveal using satellite - based laser measurements.

«If we start detecting planets around stars like that, we can tell what happens to planetary systems when their stars begin to evolve and lose mass and swell up and do all those unpleasant things,» he says.

«The land ice in the Arctic and very likely in the Antarctic is losing mass and shrinking, and the sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking, all as expected in world warming from our CO2,» Alley said.

Measurements of local gravitational anomalies by the GRACE satellites show that the Greenland ice sheet, particularly in its southern reaches, is rapidly losing mass.

It happens because the Sun's gravitational grip gradually weakens as our star ages and loses mass.

It's also thought to be among the most stable, not gaining or losing mass even as ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland shrink.

When bones stop carrying loads, however, they begin to lose mass and weaken.

When CryoSat was first conceived more than a decade ago, its main objective was to determine whether Earth's large ice sheets were losing mass at all.

It's already losing mass and shrinking.»

What Geim and Kim confirmed is graphene's electrons effectively lose their mass.

The researchers propose that declining levels of ER - a in postmenopausal women may cause their bones to lose mass and weaken.

If a glacier loses mass from enhanced melting, it may start floating farther inland from its former grounding line, just as a boat stuck on a sandbar may be able to float again if a heavy cargo is removed.

In the 1970s he proved that black holes lose mass by emitting radiation and eventually evaporate altogether.