Sentences with phrase «melt into seas»

We now live in a state of global ecological overshoot: allowing carbon dioxide to accumulate in the atmosphere, polluting our air and water ways, and causing natural landscapes to wilt into deserts and icecaps to melt into seas.

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

Fossil fuel burning, deforestation and farming have increased temperatures by nearly 2 °F during the past two centuries and caused ice to melt into the seas, causing them to rise at a quickening pace.

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

For example, scientists know that once giant glaciers begin to retreat, in some parts of the world simple geography dictates nothing can stop them from melting into the sea.

There's nothing quite like hunkering down at one of their iconic plastic tables, ordering a couple of ice - cold beers and watching the sun melt into the sea.

Watching the sun go down and melt into the sea is usually among the biggest highlights of vacations on the island.

Barra Lake House, built on the banks of the lagoon at Barra Inhambane, overlooks the lagoon as it melts into the sea in the distance.

Just a musician and geek all rolled into one who spends his days watching sandcastles melt into the sea

Once the barrier of the sea - ice is gone, there is a concern that the land - ice in places like Greenland will melt into the sea.

President Donald Trump's face could melt into the sea if a Finland - based group raises enough money to carve a monstrous ice sculpture of him into an Arctic glacier.

When will the Greenland ice sheet completely melt into the sea?

The scientists used satellite monitoring to determine the contribution of all land - based ice (except for Greenland and Antarctica's huge ice sheets) to rising sea levels and found that the volume of ice melting into the sea each year from ice caps and glaciers was 100 cubic miles (or 417 cubic km).

Not exact matches

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Further, the less time an ice sheet has to create new layers of ice each winter, the less strong ice is created and built into centuries of previous strong sea ice, leaving ever more vulnerable and easy - to - melt sea ice.

Over thirty years later, James disparaged this same view, saying that, of course, «We want a universe where we can just give up, fall on our father's neck, and be absorbed into the absolute life as a drop of water melts into the river or the sea» (PRAG 140).

Icarus, son of Daedalus, flew with him but so close to the sun that the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea.

As a kid she used regular table salt; now she recommends a flaky sea salt like Maldon, because the flavor is less harsh and it melts so nicely into the batter, accentuating the chocolaty sweetness.

The dark chocolate, since it's chopped instead of using chips, melts into these gorgeous ripples of richness throughout, balanced by just a kiss of sea salt scattered on top.

6 long stalks of rhubarb, cut into chunks 100g raw sugar 1/2 a vanilla bean 2 tsp cinnamon 3/4 cup (185 ml) coconut oil, melted if hard 1/3 cup lemon juice 1/2 cup (170g) raw honey or maple syrup for pure vegan pinch of sea salt Line a 23 cm baking tin with baking paper.

1 1/4 cup of oats 1/2 cup of ground almonds 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree 2 tablespoon of coconut oil — melted 3 tablespoons of runny almond butter 5 tablespoons of maple syrup or agave nectar 1 tablespoon of milled flaxseeds + 3 tablespoons of water 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg a pinch of sea salt 50gr of Mia Cranberry Chocolate chopped into small pieces 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds (optional) 2 tablespoons pecans, chopped 2 tablespoons dried cranberries, chopped

3 cups of white flour 1 sachet of dried yeast 1 teaspoon of sugar 1/3 cup of melted coconut oil 1/4 cup of coconut sugar 3/4 cup of lukewarm unsweetened almond milk 1/2 cup of lukewarm water 60gr of Mia 100 % dark chocolate chopped into small pieces 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon A pinch of sea salt

ingredients TOPPINGS: 4 tablespoons olive oil (divided) 1/2 pound sweet Italian sausage (casings removed) 1 yellow onion (peeled, finely diced) 1 cup cremini mushrooms (thinly sliced) 1 cup sliced pepperoni Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper (to taste) GARLIC BUTTER: 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted) 6 cloves garlic (peeled, minced) PIZZA ROLLS: 4 pounds store - bought pizza dough (divided) 1 (12 - ounce) jar store - bought marinara sauce (divided, plus extra for serving) 1 16 - ounce package low - moisture mozzarella cheese (cut into 1 / 4 - inch cubes) 1 recipe garlic butter prepared toppings 2 tablespoons dried Italian oregano flaky sea salt (to taste) cooking spray (for greasing)

Put the desiccated coconut and sea salt into a large bowl and add the melted coconut cream mixture.

He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

Once they reach the sea and begin melting, they release a bounty of dissolved iron and other nutrients into the nutrient - poor waters around Antarctica.

In summer, melting sea ice releases nutrients into the water, which triggers vast algal blooms.

Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.

«Calculations show that it is more than 2000 kelvins [3000 °F],» Schneider says, which would melt rock into a sea of lava.

An article in the March issue of Oceanography, authored by scientists from Cornell and Rutgers universities, points to 2012's unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt as the root cause of the events that transformed a relatively modest storm into a destructive force (ClimateWire, Sept. 20, 2012).

Then, even without melting, the sheets may slide into the sea and raise sea level catastrophically

Today, sea ice is melting rapidly, and in the last decades we have seen the tree line moving north into the Arctic tundra.

What they found, Hansen says, is that melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could inject enough fresh water into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formations.

Scientists worry that their melting might unleash inland floes that would also flood into the sea.

The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years to come.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

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.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In recent years, melting sea ice has allowed more of the Pacific water to flow through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean.

About 15,000 years ago, as rising seas submerged the land bridge and a warming trend began to melt the glaciers covering North America, people swept rapidly into both North and South America.

Once the LGM came to a close, however, the climate began to warm, the sea level rose and ice masses started melting away, allowing the Native American founder population to enter into North America nearly 15,000 years ago, according to the genetic record.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.