Sentences with phrase «of pack ice»

We further suggest that drowning - related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and / or longer open water periods continues.

An editorial in The Time magazine on June 24, 1974, quoted concerned scientists as voicing alarm over the atmosphere «growing gradually cooler for the past three decades», «the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland,» and other harbingers of an ice age that could prove «catastrophic.»

«Nor can we exclude the possibility that a blowout in the middle of the Barents Sea might drift north to the edge of the pack ice,» he notes.

Telltale signs are everywhere - from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth - loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.

A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface of Mars, suggest observations from Europe's Mars Express spacecraft.

That made sense to scientists, since they observed Adelies wintering on pack ice, while chinstrap penguins preferred the open water north of that pack ice.

The Lance sailed east and around 80 kilometers from the small island of Hopen moored next to a large expanse of pack ice on May 2.

The 13 highest - priority areas together cover almost the entire margin of the Arctic Ocean and include a broad swath of pack ice that should linger against northern Greenland and adjacent Canadian islands after the rest of the ice is gone.

Most of the north pole ice is made of pack ice which is floating — exactly like an ice cube — on the ocean: the only way to get it make the ocean rise is to put more ice on it (when it melts, nothing happens to the sea level)

Shackleton's ship Endurance departed the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in December 1914, navigating a maze of pack ice, an ice floe ensnared Endurance and unable to live up to her name, she succumbed to the unforgiving ice.

We went the first weekend in June and there was still a lot of pack ice along the coast.

The bigger story in the bear's journey is that it may have been facilitated by the unusual abundance of pack ice between Greenland and Iceland this spring.

Under historical conditions, these females and their young would have foraged offshore in the Chukchi, resting on sea ice pans and benefiting from the ocean calming effects of pack ice.

Ongoing climate warming has manifested as shrinking and thinning of pack ice in the Arctic.

He says that means, aside from some scattered icebergs and clusters of pack ice, the view from space in the fall of, say, 2040, will be of a blue Arctic Ocean.

The winter sea ice in the Antarctic is increasing slowly and now has reached an extent similar to what it was in 1914 when Shacleton was prevented from reaching the Rohnne Ice Shelf because of pack ice.

While it is true that some ringed seals give birth in stable shorefast ice close to shore, many others give birth well offshore in thick pack ice — where polar bears also live and hunt in the spring but where few Arctic scientists ever venture — and the existence of pack ice breeding ringed seals is one of the reasons that polar bears are such a resilient species.

As the ice is increasingly punctured by cryoconite, more and more heat is captured, melting increasing amounts of ice in a feedback loop that might spell the end of pack ice — one of our most important defenses to runaway climate change.

In frigid Antarctica, Parker ran the marathon in laps around a landing strip of packed ice and snow at Novo, a Russian research station.

In 2006, Arctic wildlife biologist Charles Monnett reported sighting dead polar bears in the Beaufort Sea, concluding that «drowning - related deaths... may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice... continues» (6 May 2006, p 10).

Pigeon guillemots in the northernmost parts of range move south in winter to edge of pack ice.

Researchers described the difference as akin to that of packed ice and snow.

Figure 2 shows the extent of the pack ice and the connection between Greenland and Iceland.

... observations suggested the bears drowned in rough seas and high winds and «suggest that drowning - related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and / or longer open water periods continues.»