Sentences with phrase «square kilometer loss»

The coincidence of this area loss and a 30 square kilometer loss in 2008 with abnormal warmth this year, the setting of increasing sea surface temperatures and sea ice decline are all part of a climate warming pattern.

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In that scenario, the study showed the loss 3 million to 5 million square kilometers of permafrost and changes in soil carbon ranging from a 66 - petagram loss to a 70 - petagram gain.

Losses began to get greater each summer thereafter, apparently due to global warming, dropping to about five million square kilometers in 2007.

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

Five (5) responses suggested a less dramatic loss than in 2007 (i.e., 4.3 million square kilometers) and closer to the pre-2007 long - term trend of approximately 10 % loss per decade.

Recently, we highlighted the statistic that China has up to 3.57 million square kilometers of degraded lands, i.e. lands experiencing «heavy water and soil loss.»

Total ice extent loss in August was 2.34 million square kilometers (904,000 square miles).

Millions of square kilometers sea ice extent Month — last 5 years — baseline End July — 8.73 — 10.10 End Aug — 6.04 — 7.67 End Sep — 5.02 — 7.04 Average — 6.60 — 8.27 Difference 1.67 million square kilometers (msk) Cumulated loss = 20 %

-LSB-...] we highlighted the statistic that China has up to 3.57 million square kilometers of degraded lands, i.e. lands experiencing «heavy water and soil loss.»

This is a decrease from the average rate of ice loss for June 2010 of -85,210 square kilometers per day, and is slower than climatology (average of -84,050 square kilometers per day for 1979 - 2000).

From July 1 - July 20, the rate of ice loss averaged -79,810 square kilometers per day.

Then, according to his calculations, the area of forest loss would be 3.65 million square kilometers (1.41 million square miles)-- more than half the size of Australia if the rest of the world continues with «business as usual.»

The remaining estimates fall into «high» and «low» extent groupings: the low extent group with a range of 4.2 to 4.7 million square kilometers, representing a continued loss of sea ice extent compared to 2008/2009, and the high extent group of 5.4 to 5.7 million square kilometers, suggesting a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss.

The loss of more than 150,000 square kilometers of forest over the past eight years has shown that a business - as - usual approach will not be enough to conserve the bulk of the Amazon.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s, peaking at 73,785 square kilometers (28,488 square miles) of forest loss between 2002 and 2004.

The rate of ice loss during July 2016 was slightly below average at 83,800 square kilometers (32,400 square miles) per day.

The researchers incorporated indirect deforestation from mining, including infrastructure built to support mineral extraction and transport, into their estimates, concluding that 11,670 square kilometers (4,500 square miles), an area twice the size of the state of Delaware, of forest loss was attributable to mining during that period.

The loss translates to 47,278 square kilometers (18,244 square miles), an area larger than Denmark.

Two contributors forecast a September minimum below that of 2007 at 4.0 million square kilometers and 3 contributors suggest a return to the long term downward linear trend for September sea ice loss (5.5 to 5.6 million square kilometers).

To put this estimate in context, this is below the 2009 minimum of 5.4 million square kilometers and represents a continuation of the long - term loss of summer arctic sea ice.

Wilson (no organization provided); 2.5 Million Square Kilometers; Statistical and Heuristic Statistical relationship between ice loss and relative strength of El Nino is used for the September minimum.

On average the daily ice loss rate for the Arctic as a whole during August was -54,000 square million square kilometers per day, or about average.

Assuming no unique atmospheric influence on ice loss in 2010 gives a September minimum of 5.0 million square kilometers.