Sentences with phrase «of the icy continent»

For the lower - altitude fringes of the icy continent, and for the rest of the world (even Siberia and Greenland), the greenhouse effect still works as expected.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

Not exact matches

But roughly 91 percent of Antarctica — nearly twice the size of Australia — is unmapped, and the largest unsurveyed region on the icy continent is a region called Princess Elizabeth Land.

While the reduced depletion was due mostly to higher temperatures on the icy continent, scientists are hopeful that the chemical levels have dropped enough that the result is a shrinkage of the ozone hole each season.

It is the first known transmission of a «foreign» disease to wildlife on the icy continent.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

The coldest, driest, and iciest of Earth's continents, Antarctica is home to some of the most important and ambitious science projects on the planet.

Sections of its icy shell slide beneath each other in a similar way to Earth's continents and ocean floors — which could provide nutrients to any life that might live under the ice.

As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is asked to join a Norwegian expedition in the Antarctic after they uncover an ancient alien spacecraft deep beneath the ice, but when one of the shape - shifting creatures awakens from its icy tomb, she will be forced to determine friend from foe in a battle for survival atop the frozen continent.

When the squirrel - like creature poises the tip of his acorn on the icy landscape, it causes a crack that divides the landmass into the continents we know today.

Spend 13 days exploring the icy wilderness of the world's most remote continent.

Antarctica is a large icy, ferociously cold desert continent located at the southernmost point of the planet, mostly populated by penguins.

Here, he meets many scientists there who are working on a range of climate - related issues, analysing the data they have gathered from past expeditions to the icy continent.

The group found that the icy winds blowing off Antarctica, as well as a powerful ocean current that circles the frozen continent, are much larger factors in the formation and persistence of Antarctic sea ice than changes in temperature.

#Antartica2020 therefore represents a future for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean that keeps the icy continent a place of environmental protection, peace and science.

Now if we POLLUTE the vast icy continent with salt water, we will surely start a massive melting of the ice cap.

The polar experts, studying the effects of global warming on the icy continent that is devoted to science, fear a repeat of the 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf.