Sentences with phrase «shorter sea ice season»

«All polar bears across the Arctic face shorter sea ice season.»

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With a shorter season of sea ice, polar bears have less access to marine mammals.

In the case of Arctic whales, the changes in sea ice might benefit their populations, at least in the short term: the loss and earlier retreat of sea ice opens up new habitats and, in some areas of the Arctic, has also led to an increase in food production and the length of their feeding season.

This new group of scientists find some weather disturbances were not from the El Nino, La Nina cycle, but apparently regulated by conditions in the Arctic — things like low sea ice, low or shorter season snow cover, and even «sudden stratospheric warming».

Satellite observations made from 1979 to 2016 show that the annual sea ice season in the greater Station Obama area has become 3 - 4 months shorter over the last 38 years.

Fishery scientists have concluded, «at least in the short term, the lengthening of the ice - free season presently observed in Arctic seas could result in improved recruitment and larger populations of Arctic cod.»

A long - lived paradigm in polar oceanography is that arctic pelagic ecosystems, characterized by short food webs, remain in a dormant state throughout most of the winter season beneath the sea - ice cover, which can last 8 — 10 months in some regions.

Land - based energy exploration will be affected by a shorter season when ice roads are viable, yet reduced sea ice extent may create more opportunity for offshore development.

Less sea ice cover and a shorter ice season allows wind and wave action to attack the previously ice - protected coastline, especially during the autumn storm season.