Sentences with phrase «of ice floes»

So various tame conservation biologists came up with all sorts of nonsense about how polar bear populations were dwindling and how the melting of the ice floes would jeopardize their ability to feed themselves etc..

In another few years, it will have retreated away from the shoreline of Anse des Glaçons (the cove of ice floes, a place name which will provoke nostalgia one day).

In the summer, the layers and puddles of water which can accumulate on the surface of the ice floes mislead the algorithm in to underestimating the total ice concentration.»

Eiscombines German - only encyclopedia texts on Arctic regions with color photographs of ice floes and icebergs.

There are echoes of this past however, and it was interesting when we included the George Bellows painting of ice floes in the Hudson River on the top floor, because that piece harkens a little bit to aspects of late 19th - century art and the age of American Impressionism, with artists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.

The result is that bears must swim further and further out to sea in search of ice floes; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning.

Polar bears must swim farther out to sea in search of ice floes where they hunt; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Dear EarthTalk: I read a heart - wrenching story of a polar bear that swam 400 miles with its cub on its back in search of an ice floe to rest on.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

Aerial view of an ice floe from Greenpeace's expedition to document Arctic sea ice reaching the lowest level on record.

Not exact matches

In other words, no matter what other managers might be thinking, she still sees plenty of room on the ice floe in which to run.

Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

The surrender of the whole universe to the physical sciences, represented by A. J. Ayer in philosophy (and by others in medicine and psychology) was a loud, daring little ice floe that tried to pull the glacier with it, failed, and fell into the sea.

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During the rest of the two - month tracking period, the bear intermittently swam and walked on ice floes for another 1,200 miles.

Scientists have explained Sputnik Planitia's youthful appearance by positing that it is an ancient impact basin — a giant crater filled with thick floes of younger ice that, driven by heat seeping up from below, churn and refresh the surface.

From lush rainforests and alligator - infested swamps to freezing ice floes, Extreme Exposures vividly shows how some of the world's most challenging environments are also some of its most beautiful.

After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Locked in the ice on their ship, the Endurance, after a long, dark winter, Ernest Shackleton and his men were gladdened by the sight of Adélies, seals, and whales «disporting themselves in the leads» between ice floes.

The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaBED that is armed with upward - looking sonar to map the underside of the sea ice floes.

«The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, now is fragmented into smaller floes that are more exposed to warm ocean waters.

The team high - fived and hugged when they stuck the first tag onto one of the whales and «just went crazy» when it was still attached to its host's back after a nerve - wracking dive beneath an ice floe, says Ari Friedlaender, a marine mammal ecologist at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, who led the team.

Ice grows on the bottom surface of floating floes.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.

When geographical barriers — such as rising sea levels or retracting ice floes — separate populations, they may develop genetic, physiological, or behavioral differences; changes in chromosome structure or number; differently shaped genitalia; or incompatible mating times and rituals — any of which can prevent successful reproduction.

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Often photographed clinging to Arctic ice floes as its habitat melts away into warming waters, the polar bear is the poster child for U.S. efforts to save wildlife on the brink of extinction using the Endangered Species Act.

This documentary tells the story of the survival of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of his vessel «The Endurance,» which shipwrecked in the ice floes and frigid ocean of the Antarctic in 1914.

One took place in a opulent Greek setting that wouldn't have looked out of place in older God of War games, while the other is a much more arctic setting, set with a deep cavern behind and ice floes on the other side.

The voyage nonetheless left its mark on history when the captain and crew were forced to abandon ship and live on an ice floe for 196 days in the middle of the Arctic winter.

Each zodiac, driven by a member of the expedition team who guided us through the rubble of Antarctica's melting ice, allowed us the opportunity to cruise through the ice, spotting seals snoozing on the floes.

Travel to the northern reaches of Baffin Island to experience the floe edge — also known as the «line of life» — where the sea ice opens up, and marine mammals and other wildlife congregate.

Sculptural white icebergs, ice floes and deep blue seas flank the barren, rocky coastlines, which are home to moss, lichens and small plants and an incredible abundance of marine mammals and seabirds.

Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it's sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of a fiery underworld, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest chefs.

There is a sub-plot that accompanies Anno's typically insipid RTS - lite elements in which you pilot a fleet of battleships around ice floes and islands blowing up moon terrorists and completing fetch quests for fellow CEOs (whose own battle fleets must be having their MOTs).

She defeats Rundas, and he is killed by one of his own ice floes.

From lingerie made of sealskin to temporary ice paintings captured on film, the show provides a glimpse at the teeming natural and cultural ecosystem found at Floe Edge, where human, ocean, animal and art all support and challenge each other.

From «Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land,» five channels shot on 16 mm film, transferred to video, projected from DVD, 21 minutes 48 seconds per channel, black and white, silent.

The ice concentration of the small floes was about 10 to 30 percent and the mini-icebergs jutting out of the water by about one meter provided for a situation which was mastered by the modern multipurpose heavy lift project carriers being built with ice class E3 and the experience of the captains.

The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

Are the images of polar bears isolated on small ice floes symbolic rather than actual representations?

While shippers have for centuries dreamed of sending cargo over the top of the world --- a huge shortcut compared to other long - distance sea routes — Pablo Clemente - Colón, the chief scientist at the National Ice Center, said the open water in the passages over Russia, particularly, remains clotted with thick dangerous floes and also can close up in a matter of hours.

What appear to be mountains on the horizon are the raised chunks of sea ice comprising the pressure ridge about 200 - m away bounding our ice floe.

Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.

Much more of the Arctic ocean was comprised of individual broken ice floes and the pack ice had holes in it exposing ocean in many places.

This is no easy task given that the ice is not a uniform cap, as it might appear on a chart, but a milling mass of floes that are in near constant motion.

Although I've not been able to find enough to get a broad view of the Arctic, and some data such as Buoys suffers from an observational bias — more substantial floes of ice are chose for the placement of buoys.

One way or the other, it's clear that, by the end of the 1990s, the veneer of ice on the Arctic Ocean had shifted to a far more tenuous state, with ever less thick, years - old ice like the floes I camped on when I went with the team setting up the annual North Pole Environmental Observatory.