Sentences with phrase «sea ice coverage shrink»

This came as a shock to researchers who saw Arctic sea ice coverage shrink to a documented low in 2012.

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Last Friday afternoon, on a conference call hosted by the National Research Council to present a recent report on the Arctic region, Stephanie Pfirman, an environmental science professor at Barnard College, said Arctic ice coverage is shrinking and that thicker sea ice blocks, which anchor much of the landscape, are rapidly melting.

Climate scientists had claimed that sea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine lisea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine liSea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine life.