Sentences with phrase «ocean water bears»

Thus, when ice caps form, ocean water bears a higher ratio of the heavier isotope.

Not exact matches

You missed the point: A creator, fine - tuner god is a far cry from a god that can walk on water, make pigs run into the sea, order angels to kill all first born or split open oceans to save his favorite people.

He is born with an instinct for hiding himself — no matter how restless he is, he will not start for the ocean except in the dark of the moon, or on cloudy nights or when the water is murky from rains.

These tough little buggers, also known as tardigrades, could keep calm and carry on until the sun boils Earth's oceans away billions of years from now, according to a new study that examined water bears» resistance to various astronomical disasters.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

But even the most fiercely devoted Polar Bear Club members are only human, and woefully limited compared to other animals that have adaptations for swimming in cold ocean waters.

The event is organized by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, a group of dedicated open - water swimmers who brave the numbing ocean every Sunday from November through April.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.

Earth and Venus are of comparable size and mass, yet the surface of Venus bakes at 460 degrees Celsius under an ocean of carbon dioxide that bears down with the weight of a kilometer of water.

Desertification could also lead to an increase harmful water borne bacteria in the ocean.

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice and waters are habitat for many imperiled species, from polar bears to bowhead whales — and they all face the threat of dirty fossil - fuel development.

Chemical analysis of the plume indicated the presence of organic and nitrogen - bearing molecules, as well as salts and silicates, which strongly suggest ocean water is in contact with a rocky core.

Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans.

When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

But I was born with a recurring nightmare of a great bird picking me up in its claws and dropping me into an empty ocean, and for that, and other reasons, I have always been afraid of water.

Born: Central CA coast, 2012 Current Weight: 82 lb (expected to gain 4,300 lb by age 7) Length: Approx. 4 ft (expected to grow to 13 ft) Dives: Will dive 5,000 ft underwater Diet: Doesn't drink water, but does eats 3 times a day Status: Receiving medical care - expected to return to the ocean by June!

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The study was too limited to clarify whether the warming Arctic climate and related summer expansion of open water in the Arctic Ocean is necessitating more long swims — or whether that is reducing the bear's survival rate or reproductive success.

An innovative use of radio collars has allowed researchers to gauge the long - distance swimming skills of polar bears in the Arctic Ocean waters north of Alaska.

``... an Arctic Ocean that in summers later this century is transformed into a wave - lapped expanse of blue water frequented by container ships, tankers, a lot more salmon and a lot fewer polar bears.»

But it does not undermine the long - term forecast, which is for an Arctic Ocean that in summers later this century is transformed into a wave - lapped expanse of blue water frequented by container ships, tankers, a lot more salmon and a lot fewer polar bears.

This suggests that the associated changes in North Atlantic Deep Water formation and in the large - scale deposition of wind - borne iron in the Southern Ocean had limited impact on CO2.

A polar bear gazes at the open water in the Arctic Ocean.

In addition to the ever - changing shape and depth of the ocean basins and coastal zone boundaries, one must also bear in mind the «leaky Earth»: There appears to be a continuous exchange of water between the ocean bottom and the Earth's crust, as Professor Shige Maruyama of Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown.

With a rise in the overall temperature of the ocean, ocean - borne storms such as tropical storms and hurricanes, which get their fierce and destructive energy from the warm waters they pass over, could increase in force.

The Arctic Ocean's waters are home to whales, walruses, polar bears, and are a rich subsistence area.

«We thought Enceladus was just boring and cold until the Cassini mission discovered a liquid water subsurface ocean,» said Cable.

Living forests hold water while dead plant tissue are often borne in solution into ground water, streams and rivers to fertilize the oceans shallow littoral zones.

However, it must be borne in mind that the MOC can also include shallower, wind - driven overturning cells such as occur in the upper ocean in the tropics and subtropics, in which warm (light) waters moving poleward are transformed to slightly denser waters and subducted equatorward at deeper levels.

There are no hurricanes born over cold water, therefore, a much warmer ocean will expand the range, intensity and frequency of hurricanes.