Sentences with phrase «polar ecosystems»

LONDON, 3 April, 2018 — Two separate studies have calculated what it would take to keep the Arctic ice frozen through the summer months — and thus preserve the precious polar ecosystem and help contain further global warming.
One initiative Canada could push is the creation of an international Arctic fisheries agreement, which would protect the fragile polar ecosystem from unregulated commercial fishing in the high seas of the Arctic.
The long - term geological record reveals an early Cenozoic warm climate that supported smaller polar ecosystems, few coral - algal reefs, expanded shallow - water platforms, longer food chains with less energy for top predators, and a less oxygenated ocean than today.
Loss of this ice has ramifications for polar ecosystems, as well as potentially to weather patterns in Europe, Asia, and North America..
The new findings, which were supported in part by an award from the Division of Polar Programs in NSF's Geosciences Directorate as well as by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, may also be key to understanding how the vastly productive polar ecosystem might respond to future change caused by warming of the oceans.
Two separate studies have calculated what it would take to keep the Arctic ice frozen through the summer months — and thus preserve the precious polar ecosystem and help contain further global warming.
The result could mean major shifts in climate and in the polar ecosystem.
«At current emission rates models suggest that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or potentially even earlier,» they wrote.
The new discovery suggests that the hadrosaurs not only roamed in herds but also flourished in the ancient high - latitude, polar ecosystem.
«We're looking for fossils of backboned animals that were living in Antarctica at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs, so we can learn more about how the devastating extinction that happened right afterward might have affected polar ecosystems
But the authors completely ignored the tropics, where most of the world's species live, focusing instead on the temperate and polar ecosystems that will experience the most significant changes in annual temperatures.
(08/18/2008) Coal burning is contaminating the Arctic, and may be affecting human health and polar ecosystems, warn scientists writing in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The statement emphasizes that ocean acidification is irreversible and, on current emission trajectories, suggests that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or even earlier.
But the authors completely ignored the tropics, where most of the world's species live, focusing instead on the temperate and polar ecosystems that will experience the most significant changes in annual temperatures.
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