Sentences with phrase «mountain glaciers almost»

It is safe for the time being, but mountain glaciers almost everywhere in the world are in retreat, and meltwater flow from the glaciers that drain the Greenland icecap is on the increase.

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What do you get when you mix mountains, forests, glaciers — and families of fearless elk that stride past you so close you can almost reach out and touch them?

You'll enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and with plenty of photo opportunities and the chance to learn more about this magnificent glacier, this will almost certainly be your most memorable experience whilst in New Zealand.

There were marginal retreats in almost all the mountain glacier regions of the world from the Alps to Patagonia.

The IPCC projections of sea level rise are based largely on the slow, steady and inexorable thermal expansion of the oceans (as water heats, its volume increases) with some additional contributions from the melting of mountain glaciers (almost all of which are expected to be gone by mid century).

Mountain glaciers are melting almost everywhere.

And almost everyone recognizes the fact that it's warmer now than it used to be, that the glaciers are smaller, there's less snow on the mountains, that there's irregular precipitation and irregular weather patterns in general.