Sentences with phrase «shrinking sea»

Building new talent pools within a shrinking sea of skillsWhen one of our sourcing partners noted that job boards results were beginning to dwindle and salaries were on the up 10 - 15 % over 18 months, in an area was going to be a continued area of focus for our client, he didn't just wait for war for talent to come to him, he took matters into his own hands.
For example, the rapid melting of glaciers, the collapse of these glaciers and shrinking sea ice in winter, everything seems to have an impact on marine life.
Tracing through this list, it becomes increasingly clear how the links between distant events lock into self - reinforcing loops: rising emissions, higher temperatures, shrinking sea ice, additional warming, extended droughts, bigger wildfires, and higher emissions still.
But hey, with an ever - expanding array of climate feedback loops to worry about — melting permafrost, shrinking sea ice, hungrier carbon - belching microbes, etc — we might be needing those maps sooner than we think.
Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.
Besides shrinking sea ice there are currently also other factors that negatively affect polar bears, such as human settlements, industrial activities, hunting, bio-accumulation of toxins, and smaller seal populations.
So it's possible that shrinking sea ice in the Arctic could increase snowfall over Siberia, pushing the jet stream southward, creating summer high pressures in Europe that allow India's monsoon rains to linger, and on it goes... It's hard to examine those connections in the real world, but it's much easier to see how things play out in a climate model.
Six scientific papers arguing that polar bears may be able to adapt to shrinking sea ice by hunting on land clustered in a third area.
I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face -LSB-...] in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life.
Stroeve, J. C., M. C. Serreze, M. M. Holland, J. E. Kay, J. Malanik, and A. P. Barrett, 2012: The Arctic's rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: A research synthesis.
The Arctic's shrinking sea ice is reshaping the region's food web from the bottom up, a new study reports.
«I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face,» said Lynas, «in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life.»
Perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea - ice cover, Science, vol.
The Arctic's rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: A research synthesis.
Perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea - ice cover.
A central topic will be teleconnections in the climate system, i.e. how a change in climate in one part of the globe (e.g. temperatures in the Atlantic or shrinking sea ice cover in the Arctic) can influence climate on other parts of the globe (e.g. Eurasian winter temperatures), and how we can use this information to improve regional climate prediction and therefore regional climate service.
I think NSDIC did a good job this year in keeping people informed about the shrinking sea ice trend.
The Arctic's rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis.
«The Cryosphere and Climate Change: Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea - Ice Cover.»
The most recent published review of the science finds «the system may be poised to undergo rapid change» (The Arctic's rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: A research synthesis, Julienne C. Stroeve, 2011).
However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)
The moving image installation (with the same title) documents Chang's search for a shifting body of water in the Chinese desert, her travels to the shrinking sea of Aral, her own experience with motherhood, and the ritual washing of a whale corpse.
Rising temperatures and shrinking sea ice in the Arctic are two of the hallmarks of climate change.
Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.
In particular I am interested in boreal permafrost feedbacks such as thawing permafrost, burning boreal forests... do these feedbacks overtake man made emissions scales and were these considered in the report findings such as shrinking sea ice was (hopefully)?
A comprehensive review (pdf) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened (pdf) under the Endangered Species Act.
Because Kaktovik's polar bears seem especially susceptible to the Arctic's shrinking sea ice, researchers are concerned they may start relying more heavily on nutrient - poor food from land.
The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.
Their habitat and food supply are shifting as a result of warmer waters and shrinking sea ice.
When most people think of the physical effects of climate change, they picture melting glaciers, shrinking sea ice or flooded coastal towns (SN: 4/16/16, p. 22).
Six groups of seals threatened by shrinking sea ice are gaining protections, as their habitats are forecast to shrink significantly due to global warming
The study by the two researchers also makes it possible to calculate the individual contribution to the Arctic's shrinking sea ice.
Species targeted include the polar bear, already under threat due to climate change: Shrinking sea ice makes it harder for the animals to hunt seals, their main food source.
Revival of the shrunken sea hinges on an $ 85 million renovation of Kazakhstan's dilapidated system of river canals, sluices, and channels, culminating in an eight - mile dam across the middle of the northern part of the sea.
So a shift to this pattern for end of summer 2012 is likely to enhance melt and shrink sea ice even further.
Janet Larsen, «Disappearing Lakes, Shrinking Seas,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 7 April 2005).

Not exact matches

The sea has shrunk to half its size.
Now the turtle of the eastern sea had not got its left leg down ere its right had already stuck fast, so it shrank back and begged to be excused.
Just before the kale shrinks down in size entirely, add avocado pieces and sea salt or pepper to taste.
E. holgeri's larger ancestors probably waded out to an island, were trapped by rising sea levels, and shrank to survive.
As a result of global demand, the giants of the sea known as bluefin tuna are shrinking in size, or in some cases disappearing altogether.
The result: Surface temperatures increased rapidly, especially in the Arctic, which saw its September sea ice cover shrink by 25 percent.
As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.
«The dinosaur probably had to shrink down to dwarf size in order to survive, given the limited food available on these small islands in the shallow Central European sea,» says Lallensack.
In a better world, it would be the big news of the year just to report that Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.14 million square kilometers this summer, well below the 1981 — 2010 average of 6.22 million square kilometers (SN Online: 9/19/16).
Pesticide - laden particles from central Asia's shrunken Aral Sea are harming the respiratory health of people in the region, Okin says.
The shrinking of an immense swath of Antarctic ice threatens to raise sea level and there may be no stopping it
With the melting ice and rising seas of the End - Pleistocene, the island began to shrink rapidly until about 9,000 years ago.
Elizabeth Hanna, a public health researcher at Australia National University in Canberra, has a hard time reconciling another shrunken body of water, Lake George, with the shimmering sea of her youth.
«It will help us to find clearer answers as to whether the Arctic sea ice melts primarily due to higher temperatures or whether the sea ice is shrinking due to changes in wind and ocean currents.»
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