Sentences with phrase «retreated at an unprecedented rate»
Now, two new studies conducted by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, have revealed that glaciers in West Antarctica are retreating at an unprecedented rate due to warm water circulating beneath the ice shelf.
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Two new studies conducted by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, have revealed that glaciers in West Antarctica are retreating at an unprecedented rate due to warm water circulating beneath the ice shelf.
Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the total ice Greenland has, lost a volume of ice equal to nine states 3 feet thick between 2004 and 2007 alone.
Glaciers are retreating at an unprecedented rate,...
Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the t... Read More
Glaciers around the world have retreated at unprecedented rates and some have disappeared altogether.
With few exceptions, glaciers around the world have retreated at unprecedented rates over the last century.
The glaciers of the Andes Mountains have retreated at an unprecedented rate in the past three decades, with more ice lost than at any other time in the last 400 years.
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Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers.
You're no doubt aware by now that the Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates and by and large the world's glaciers are retreating, both with the blame placed on warming temperatures.
Thus, sea ice has melted at an unprecedented rate and is now caught in a vicious cycle known as the ice - albedo feedback: as sea ice retreats, sunshine that would have been reflected into space by the bright white ice is instead absorbed by the ocean, causing waters to warm and melt even more ice.