Sentences with phrase «pack ice retreats»

In 2006, they noted in Polar Biology that these were the first drowned bears seen since the survey began in 1987 — and speculated that such drownings may increase as pack ice retreats (DOI: 10.1007 / s00300 -005-0105-2).

As the Earth warmed out of the LIA and the pack ice retreated, the orders allowed them to sail further north.

She stated, «With the pack ice retreating further and further north every year, they tend to be stuck on land where there's not much food,» and «many times I have seen horribly thin bears, and those were exclusively females — like this one here» and «Only once I have seen a bear getting a big fat «5,» but several times I have seen dead bears and bears like this one: a mere «1» on the scale, doomed to death.»

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Stick an ice pack inside a t - shirt and place it into the snug retreat underneath the towel for added cooling effect.

I believe the psychological effect on the masses of the main ice pack retreating past the North Pole will be much greater than the last bit of mulityear ice melting along the Greenland - Elesemere Islands in the next 20 years or so.

Comparing the latest ice age data from Maslanik and Fowler (see Maslanik contribution) for 21 June 2010 (Figure 6) to current (20 July) ice extent data shows that the ice edge has retreated back to the boundary between first - year and multi-year ice pack in the eastern Arctic and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

All arguments about global warming aside, now is a time of clear retreat by age - old ice packs in many locations around the world.

Meanwhile, they said in interviews and in the summary, evidence of increasing warming has shown up in retreating glaciers, thinning polar sea ice, retreating snow packs, warmer nights, and elsewhere.