Sentences with phrase «new habitable areas»
When the ice sheet retracted from northern Europe following the last ice age around 23,000 years ago, new habitable areas emerged, allowing plants and animals to recolonize the Scandinavian peninsula.
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Of the new planets, four are Earth - like planets, less than 2.5 times the size of our planet, and are within the habitable zone, the orbit area around a star where liquid water is possible, of their sun.
With all the interest in the Arctic sea - ice extent reaching new minimums in area and volume, it seems instructive to point out a similar phenomena occurring in habitable areas.