Sentences with phrase «more bare ground»
Recently there have been a number of media reports about a «tipping point» having been reached in the Arctic as permafrost thaws, lakes disappear into the permafrost, and more bare ground is exposed to the sun.
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«Lush green tropical vegetation can be ripped away by a storm's strong winds, leaving the satellite with a view of more bare ground.
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It is essential to the bare existence of the occasion, but it is much more than simply the ground of its being.
If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land.
Black ground floral patterns are an edgy way to ease into pretty Spring patterns, and few things make us think of warm weather more than crop tops and bare shoulders.
The ice normally reflects more heat and sunlight back into space than open ocean or bare ground, so when it is reduced, the Earth gets a small incremental heat flux that will result in an increase in temperatures.
If we start growing trees where there was once grass or bare ground, the surface will absorb more incoming energy from the sun.
Snow and ice reflect more sunlight than bare ground, meaning less solar radiation is absorbed by the surface.