Sentences with phrase «northern coastal glaciers»

Radar ice - thickness estimates of the Arctic Sea ice showed that it had been thinning for years, just as they had also shown that the northern coastal glaciers of Greenland were thinning.

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Set off on a 12 - day multi-sport adventure, paddling along the pristine northern coast in a sea kayak, hiking coastal trails between soaring mountains and the Tasman Sea, trekking across a glacier that descends through a rain forest, and black - water rafting on a subterranean river.

Witness the northern lights, come eye to eye with beluga whales, watch Alaska's coastal grizzlies gorge on salmon, view glaciers calving in Greenland, and more!

Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.