Sentences with phrase «melting at an unprecedented rate»

Temperatures in South East Asia are soaring and the ice caps are melting at an unprecedented rate.»

If you read this blog regularly, you probably noticed we include quite a bit of information about how both the Arctic and Antarctica are warming and sea ice and glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates.

You're no doubt aware by now that the Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates and by and large the world's glaciers are retreating, both with the blame placed on warming temperatures.

Thus, sea ice has melted at an unprecedented rate and is now caught in a vicious cycle known as the ice - albedo feedback: as sea ice retreats, sunshine that would have been reflected into space by the bright white ice is instead absorbed by the ocean, causing waters to warm and melt even more ice.

Not exact matches

Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an accelerating rate.

Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers.

The Greenland ice mass is melting at a rate unprecedented in history.

It was supposed to show how amazingly navigable the Arctic Circle has become now that climate change is supposedly melting the polar ice caps at a dangerous and unprecedented rate.