Sentences with phrase «own ice floes»

In one ad, McCarthy can be seen floating on an ice floe and in another she can be seen running scared on a safari.

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.

In fact, four ScanEagles used in Afghanistan have now been repurposed for ConocoPhillips, which uses them to track mammal migration and ice floes in Alaska under a restricted FAA license.

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.

In Great Falls who should turn up firing jumpers from a nearby ice floe but Cazzie Russell, the ex-Knick, ex-Laker, ex-Warrior, ex-Bull and current all - round ageless wonder now performing for the Montana Sky.

The Reds began as if to hammer Hunter into the ice floe.

A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

Residents in the historic Stockade neighborhood on the Mohawk River woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday night.

The bears» feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Orcas are known for throwing themselves onto beaches, sandbars, or ice floes to grab victims, or for smashing into floating ice to knock potential prey into the water.

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 SRB buoy was set up on an ice floe near the North Pole, and was left to eventually drift southwards with the ice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With Larsen B no longer impeding movement, the ice floes that fed the shelf began moving faster towards the sea and started to thin.

Once inside, a spill can travel with ice floes.

Fish can survive even in subzero environments, such as under ice floes.

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore.

During the first weeks, they also had to keep the floating constructions free from ice floes and freezing spray.

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 misadventures this time find our heroes (voiced as ever by John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Ray Romano) drifting off away from their families on an ice floe.

Then watching your ship literally break apart as you stood on ice floes.

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.

A little girl named Aloo - ki loses her dogs on an ice floe.

With Europe's economy skidding around like an overweight man on a crumbling ice floe, this winter seems an opportune time to strap on the skis and hit the slopes across the pond.

Steller sea lions can be seen on the rocky islands and Harbor seals are often spotted on ice floes and in the bays.

Ice floes and rocky shores, quiet forests and the northern lights — Sweden is a beautiful country that attracts more than five - million tourists per year.

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.

Veteran naturalists such as author Stefan Lundgren lead hikes past penguin colonies, Zodiac land excursions, and kayak tours through ice floes, where you'll spot leopard seals and the occasional orca.

Bowhead Whale The bowhead whale is often associated with Arctic ice floes.

The ships come equipped with small zodiac boats that will take you right up to the ice floes and remote beaches where you can go ashore.

Finally, when the coast was clear, the seal was able to safely swim off to another, more secure ice floe.

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.

Guide both characters in single - player mode or play cooperatively with a friend or family member as you trek through frozen tundra, leap across treacherous ice floes, swim through underwater ice caverns, and face numerous enemies both strange and familiar in the journey to save the girl's village.

Lightning, volcanoes, geysers and ice floes possess hellish glory whose terror is facilely reduced to quaintness.