Sentences with phrase «of huge icebergs»

And the calving of huge icebergs fuels researchers» fear that, within 100 years, the entire West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, with disastrous consequences for many coastal cities worldwide.

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

Feast your eyes on the underside of a huge iceberg.

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The kids always want me to buy Iceberg or Romaine lettuce, but I'm a huge fan of the Baby Spring Mix which features an assortment of darker greens — those darker lettuces are much more nutrient rich.

I used to be all about the iceberg lettuce, but the natural benefits of Kale is huge and I really am starting to like the taste.

Earlier in the week, Ms Suu Kyi — who faces strong anti-Rohingya sentiment in Myanmar — claimed the crisis in Rakhine state was being distorted by a «huge iceberg of misinformation».

It is the huge mass of an iceberg that the mariner has most to fear.

The icebergs that find their way into the paths of transatlantic liners come down from the coast of Greenland; for the interior of Greenland is a huge ice sheet fringed by mountains and promontories.

A huge iceberg, in the shape of a ship's sail, floats in the North Atlantic, in a photo published in 1912.

But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

On Sunday wireless reports of ice and icebergs began to come in as the Cunard liner Caronia reported a huge ice field at 42 degrees north stretching from 49 to 51 degrees west.

During the last ice age, much of North America was covered by a giant ice sheet that many scientists believe underwent several catastrophic collapses, causing huge icebergs to enter the North Atlantic — phenomena known as Heinrich events.

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

Still, even huge seizures are just the tip of the iceberg, Wasser says.

However, this iceberg calving event is a natural process, part of how the ice shelf regularly calves — this ice shelf spawns huge icebergs every 6 - 10 years.

In my opinion, this finding is just the tip of the iceberg in a huge range of digestive and inflammatory disorders that could otherwise be prevented.

Of course, the actor was aboard James Cameron's ill - fated Titanic when it struck an iceberg before Leonardo DiCaprio dies because he was too stupid to climb aboard a huge floating door.

And her huge prints of icebergs are stunning.

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Explain that icebergs are really large chunks of ice that break off from huge areas of snow and ice and float in the water.

The suspicious timing and the huge amount, however, are just the tip of iceberg.

But there has always been a huge iceberg of titles beneath the surface that Western gamers rarely glimpse.

The re-creation of Ada is far fetched, we know, but in the context of a movie made twenty years ago, what seems a huge stretch is now just the tip of an artificial - intelligence iceberg that is floating in an ocean of computer simulations and heading toward your own front door.

The team tracked 10 years of data from 17 icebergs, 18 — 50 kilometers long, as the huge blocks bobbed around the Southern Ocean.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

Whether its deep warm ocean currents melting floating ice shelfs or the remnants of a far away tsunami, huge icebergs are a natural result.

If an «ice plug» near the coast of Wilkes Basin melts or breaks off into icebergs, the basin's huge quantities of water will drain into the ocean.

Huge icebergs such as the spawn of Pine Island Glacier often shatter into several pieces, and Bigg's team will track and model the fragments if the chunk collapses.

Huge Antarctic iceberg poised to break away [06/01/17] Image copyright Adrian Luckman An iceberg expected to be one of the 10 largest ever recorded is ready to break away from Antarctica, scientists say.

Satellite images reveal clue to the hidden cause of fractures in Antarctic shelf ice that are calving huge icebergs into the south polar seas.

However with the huge population it is only the tip of the iceberg.