Sentences with phrase «slide into the sea»

But the Alaska Natives that I met, whose ancestral villages are sliding into the sea — they don't have that luxury.

Then, even without melting, the sheets may slide into the sea and raise sea level catastrophically

The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sea.

The slipperiness helps determine how quickly the ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

As a result, the ice shelf is likely to both thin and flow faster, the researchers note — and eventually, that could allow the glacier to slide into the sea.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

Maybe this will put to rest the scenario of melting glaciers sliding into the sea and inundating Bangladesh, but I guess there's still the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to fantasize about.

Little winter snow in the Alpine ski resorts, continuing droughts in Africa, mountain glaciers melting faster than at any time in the past 5,000 years, disappearing Arctic sea ice, Greenland's ice sheet sliding into the sea.

-- as is the idea of the Greenland and Antarctica bodies sliding into the sea on an flow of meltwater.

Huge chunks of ice weighing several billion tons each were breaking off and sliding into the sea, causing minor earthquakes as they did so.

The state of WAIS is that it's now too late to save it from sliding into the sea in the next few hundred years with out a drop to 350 ppm.

Greenland's ice sheets slid into the sea 400,000 years ago, when Earth was only a little warmer than it is today.

Many glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up their slide into the sea.

Not exact matches

It certainly doesn't help the poor if our country slides off into the sea.

They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

Once a shelf disappears, towering glaciers that had piled up behind it in fjords along the sea's edge are free to slide into the ocean.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

If that same large body of rock and debris were to gain momentum and take the form of a gigantic landslide — separating itself from the rest of the volcano and sliding rapidly into the sea — the consequences would be devastating.

Deposits from past submarine slides also reveal new insights into the development of volcanic islands as they grow under the sea.

According to a report published today in the journal Nature, the 36 - hour - long quake forced the southern flank of the volcano to slide nearly nine centimeters into the sea.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

That in turn means all the land ice will have nothing to stop it from sliding into the ocean and raising sea levels more than 10 feet.

The penthouse's glass doors slide open to an incredible terrace with loungers, a barbecue, a pergola - covered sitting area, an al - fresco dining area and a heated infinity pool that seems to spill into the sea.

An interior stairway leads residents to the top floor and into an open living room with sliding glass doors and a front verandah facing the open sea.

BEDROOM ONE: - Master bedroom with king - bed - Polished concrete floors and white walls - Ensuite bathroom split into three areas featuring, multi-faceted shower, bathtub, rain shower and garden - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM TWO: - King - sized four - poster bed with trundle incorporated — perfect for kids or a young family - Ensuite with outdoor shower and private terrace - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM THREE: - King - sized floating bed - Sliding door leading to ensuite featuring funky design and outdoor shower - Private terrace with garden views - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM FOUR: - Located in the guest pavilion along with bedroom five, this guest room features polished floors, walls and ceilings - King - sized bed - Glass doors opening onto a wooden deck beside a private swimming pool - Ensuite with tub facing the sea and an outdoor shower - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM FIVE: - Also located in the guest pavilion - King - sized bed - Huge walk - in robes and sitting area - Glass doors opening onto a wooden deck beside a private swimming pool - Ensuite with tub facing the sea, alfresco poolside rain shower and single washbasin - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan

Perched upon Maui's East shores, atop gentle sea cliffs sliding into a private cove, this Heavenly Hana (click for video) estate is truly one of a kind.

Off the lounge are sliding doors into the garden with views of the sea.

We especially loved the sliding doors that opened out into our private veranda that looked over the lush gardens and the blue waters of the sea.

The living area includes a unique set of sliding glass windows that disappear into the walls, creating a seamless, unobstructed view of the golf course and sea.

This area had us slipping and sliding up and down ramps into the air over sinking icebergs in a sea of Rayman - eating piranhas.

So the GIS is a «caged iceberg» unable to slide whole into the sea because of 50 or so kilometers of mountains holding it in place?

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

I think when great huge chunks of ice start sliding off the Greenland plateau into the sea and nations start to realise that all the Greenland ice will be gone by 2070 and the sea level will rise by 7 metres by the same date then they will realise this problem can't be tackled by playing economic games with cap and trade.

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«With most glaciers that are moving ice from the land into the sea and causing sea level rise in Greenland, the majority of their velocity appears to be due to the flow rather than the sliding,» he said.

While reading through the litany of attacks, I couldn't help wondering what the attackers thought will happen - if they successfully intimidate the scientists, do they think the ice sheets will stop sliding into the ocean and sea levels will stop rising?

Even if they all slid into the ocean, melted or not, they would only raise the sea level by about 0.934 * 1.7 / 3.62 = 44 cm or about a foot and a half.

The most obvious consequence of ice loss will be rising sea levels from glaciers sliding into the ocean, and increased global warming as ice - free waters absorb solar energy.

The discovery raises fresh questions about the speed at which sea levels might rise in a warmer world due to the rate at which parts of the ice sheets slide from the land into the ocean, scientists said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

If that hump flattens and the ice slides into the ocean, our sea level rise is now realized and reflected by the new distribution.

A nudibranch (sea slug) sliding around on a bit of mossy rock transformed from a monochromatic lump into an ethereal white being accented with rusty maroon and brown alongside the black.