Sentences with phrase «of ice year»

Other research presented at the meeting reported that Greenland's ice loss is accelerating by 22 gigatons (22 cubic kilometers) of ice a year, with some areas, particularly the edges, losing ice faster than others.

One decade ago, the ice loss at the edges had increased and Greenland was losing around 100 billion tonnes of ice every year.

Chen's team calculated that the biggest contribution is coming from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which is losing about 250 gigatonnes of ice each year.

The net loss of billions of tons of ice a year added about 11 millimeters — seven - sixteenths of an inch — to global average sea levels between 1992 and 2011, about 20 % of the increase during that time, those researchers reported.

Make no mistake: Globally, glaciers are shrinking, losing about 150 billion tons of ice a year.

And the more the ice sheet melts — we're talking hundreds of billions of tons of ice a year — the more that rising seas endanger low - lying coastal communities around the world.

Right now, Greenland is losing more than 200 billion tons of ice a year!

that the grace satellite shows Antarctica to be losing 260 billion tons of ice a year.

«A new study by researchers from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California at Santa Cruz, published in the respected journal Science, found that the ice sheets of Antarctica, far from melting, actually are expanding by some 26.8 billion tons of ice a year.2

Other teams have stepped back to look at the big picture, and one calculation is that around 160,000 glaciers in Europe, Asia, and the Americas are shedding 260 billion tonnes of ice each year.

«Our model experiments show that from 15000 to 13000 years ago, the Eurasian ice sheet lost 750 cubic kilometres of ice a year.

The average American melts almost 50 square metres of ice a year.

A recent report shows Antarctica losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year.

According to my estimate for heat to melt the additional 6000 cubic km of ice each year at 17 x 10 ^ 20 Joules, this heat is re-released from the Arctic ocean waters when the ice refreezes in the fall.

On the other hand, the Northern Sea Route, a shortcut along the Eurasian coast that is often at least partially open, was completely blocked by a band of ice this year.

Three years of measurements from CryoSat show that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year, enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm per year.

«Ice loss is about 4.5 cubic kilometres of ice a year.»

Greenland is losing an average of 260 billion tons of ice each year.

From their observations at saddle camp, the researchers said the glacier is on pace to lose several feet of ice every year.

A 1 °C increase in temperature, applied uniformly across a glacier, is enough to melt a vertical meter of ice each year.

Eventually the north pole may flip and be free of ice year - round.

«Our model experiments show that from 15000 to 13000 years ago, the Eurasian ice sheet lost 750 cubic kilometres of ice a year.

Greenland, it found, is losing 280 gigatons of ice a year on average, while Antarctica is shedding 120 gigatons — rates that both seem to be accelerating.

Chen's team calculated that the biggest contribution is coming from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which is losing about 250 gigatonnes of ice each year.

Notable results included a report from researchers at MIT that Alaska lost an average of 10 and a half cubic miles of ice each year from 2003 to 2005.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

Greenland was losing 12 cubic miles of ice each year.

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Sea.

Not exact matches

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead to better ties after a year of strains.

Since the start of this year, the company has sold 50 million pints, making it the best - selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., surpassing long - time industry leaders like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.

In March 2017, sea ice around the North and South Poles reached record lows for that time of year.

«It would have been very easy to say this year, «It's a disaster, not going to do bonuses,»» says Penny, who wears a diamond - encrusted brooch in the shape of an ice cream cone affixed to a bright red blouse.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

For years, Markdale held an annual ice cream festival each summer, a sign of Chapman's pride of place within the community.

She's practiced the «Oops, I did it again'thousands of times in training, and on Thursday her signature trick was worth its weight in Olympic gold as American Jocelyne Lamoureux - Davidson's shootout winner broke a Canadian 16 - year stranglehold on the women's ice hockey title.

In recent years, a slow drip of products with maple flavour has increased to a spring - thaw gush, including everything from icing, chips, ice cream, tea, coffee and even beer.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Warren Buffett has made no secret about his questionable consumption of burgers, shoestring fries, ice cream and loads of Coca - Cola — and the 87 - year - old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway appears to remain healthy, mentally sharp and active.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

(Shackleton abandoned several unopened crates of this Scotch at his Antarctic base camp in 1909, and they were miraculously recovered from under the polar ice 98 years later, in 2007.

After a year of trial and error, Woolverton finally had a product that satisfied him, even if it was temperamental: Straight from the freezer, the ice cream could still be chalky and hard as a rock.

Novelty or gimmick ice cube trays have become increasingly popular in recent years, likely because they are a relatively inexpensive way to add a blast of fun to a special occasion.

The team found that, for the last 20 years, the glacier and ice cap mass loss has been exactly equal to the amount of meltwater runoff lost to the sea.

Ultraviolet cell phone disinfectants, bloodstain testers, and a brand new use for dry ice are just a few of the pitches at this year's Rice University Business Plan Competition.

After its takeover of the New York Stock Exchange in 2013, Intercontinental Exchange (ice) has continued on an acquisition spree, which helped it grow sales more than 27 % last year — just the boost it needed to help it break into the Fortune 500.

He used $ 300 Tomkats had earned over its first year to rent a U-Haul, tables, and chairs, and he relied on coolers to keep the food iced — limiting current inventory to only one day's worth of food.

The community is currently building a new civic centre with a new ice rink and pool to come in the next couple of years.

One year later, the chain told Fortune the better - quality coffee paid off: Its coffee sales have doubled, with iced coffee in particular driving 75 % of the growth.