Sentences with phrase «square kilometres less»

However, it also said the 2C scenario would save more than 200bn cubic metres of water a year and use nearly 150,000 square kilometres less land overall.

And the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSDIC) reports that the sea ice was also a full million square kilometres less than May 2012 − the year that, in September, recorded the lowest - ever summer extent.

Twelve months of record high temperatures globally have led to this month's extent of Arctic ice falling to a million square kilometres less than four years ago.

Those dangers are now being dramatically demonstrated around the globe: drought in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which has forced the government there to issue a state of emergency warning; France observed its warmest winter since records began; while the sea ice that has formed in the Arctic this winter is about a million square kilometres less than its average for this time of year.

Not exact matches

Since 1936, the glaciers have shrunk by some 16 square kilometres, and today less than 3 square kilometres of ice is left.

In 1959, the world population of this bird stood at just 26 individuals on Cousin, an island in the Indian Ocean less than a third of a square kilometre in area.

With only 25 individuals remaining in less than 20 square kilometres of forest in China's Hainan Island, the Critically Endangered Hainan gibbon is one of the rarest animals in the world.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

Despite occupying almost 6,000 square kilometres, Mayo has a population of less than 140,000 people and is joyfully devoid of tourists.

The smallest of Paris» arrondissements, it measures less than one square kilometre.

If GHG emissions are unabated, the study shows, only a tiny bit of sea ice [less than 0.1 million square kilometres] could survive the coming decades.

What we have is less than two thousand temperature stations of unknown and highly variable quality, to measure the average temperature of ~ 150 million square kilometres of land.

Anthony can hold the stakes, «ice - free» to be defined as less than a million square kilometres of ice at the lowest point.

«By «ice - free», scientists usually mean a sea ice extent of less than one million square kilometres, rather than zero sea ice cover.

«My prediction remains that the Arctic ice may well disappear, that is, have an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year,» he said.

Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see «an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year» 2016

Gauthier et al. (Canadian Ice Service); 4.9 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in SeptemberSquare Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in Septembersquare kilometres in September 2010.

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

Indeed, it is now believed that even less rain fell over the 5.3 million square kilometres of the Amazon in 2010, potentially making last year's drought the worst on record.

This year was less than the previous record by a million square kilometres — so no help there, In fact reduced snow cover has been compounding the problem.