Sentences with phrase «year ice through»

In this way, a negative AO could help retain some the second - and third - year ice through the winter, and potentially rebuild some of the older, multiyear ice that has been lost over the past few years.

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Partly through studying ice, he looks at what happened during other carbon cycles thousands and even millions of years ago in order to make assumptions about what could happen today.
MOSCOW When Yuri Ganus settled into his new office last year as the director of RUSADA, Russia's suspended anti-doping agency, he hung a picture of an icebreaker plowing through blocks of ice.
RICHMOND, Virginia — President Donald Trump is the ice - breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.
I could go on, but the fact of the matter is, if you use just the bible to map out a timeline it's a little wonky but doable because for over 2000 years its had revisions and edits so that it would make more sense, if you want to really look the history of the world through geology, ice core samples and what not, it'll paint a very different picture.
Forty years ago «scientific evidence» supported that the earth was going through the next Ice Age.
Thanks to modern engineering, we have drilled down through tens of thousands of years worth of these ice layers and studied them closely.
Throughout the years, the Nagles worked to improve the quality of halibut through the monitoring of bleeding and icing procedures, resulting in superior meat textures and a longer shelf life.
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Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfThrough the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confthrough tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.
The Fentons opened Main Street Ice Cream in 2009 and over the years have held numerous fundraisers, partnering with Ride for Roswell, local veterans on Veterans Day, youth baseball, Hamburg High School, the Hamburg Community Playground Project, and numerous groups through the annual Scarecrow project.
He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.
It used to persist through the sunny summers, allowing several years of ice growth to accumulate.
The findings are from the largest study of hominin body sizes, involving 311 specimens dating from earliest upright species of 4.4 m years ago right through to the modern humans that followed the last ice age.
Next year, the team will install seismometers to listen in on the flow of water through and beneath the ice, and to crevasse formation.
But with less ice every year, those who make their living through tourism in Hokkaido are worried.
In the belly of the plane, an array of instruments stares at the ice through a window cut into the nearly 50 - year - old DC - 8's former baggage compartment.
Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.
A longstanding hypothesis claimed that the first migration took place 12,600 years ago through an ice - free corridor between retreating North American glaciers, via the ice - age Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska.
But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.
Before Parzinger opened his grave, the warrior had lain for more than 2,000 years on an ice lens, a sheet of ice created by water seeping through the grave and freezing against the permafrost below.
The incident, which was monitored and recorded by satellite images, aerial photography and a research vessel navigating through the resulting icebergs, is the largest single event in a 30 - year series of ice shelf retreats in the area.
The researchers propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice.
For instance, it was previously thought that it would take hundreds of years for the Greenland ice sheet to melt right the way through.
It's not clear why the crack made it through the soft ice, and whether other rifts will follow suit in the coming years.
But what may or may not have happened does not change the science - ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the top ten hottest years since 1880 include 2001 through 2008.
Archaeologists used to think that people walked from Siberia through an ice - free passage down Alaska and Canada, reaching the interior of the United States about 13,000 years ago.
The Russians held off drilling into the accreted ice for seven years, while they went through the long process of preparing a comprehensive environmental evaluation detailing their drilling plans and inviting comment, as required by the Antarctic Treaty, an environmental - protection agreement signed by nations with a presence in the Antarctic.
In some years — including the past two — an icebreaker passing through the Ross Sea and into McMurdo Sound encounters primarily «first - year ice,» which is less stiff than multiyear ice and easier for icebreakers to clear.
We present a synthesis of decadally resolved proxy temperature records from poleward of 60 ° N covering the past 2000 years, which indicates that a pervasive cooling in progress 2000 years ago continued through the Middle Ages and into the Little Ice Age.
In recent years, melting sea ice has allowed more of the Pacific water to flow through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean.
The water will migrate downward through slushy ice to the subsurface ocean within a few tens of thousands of years, researchers reported today at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid.
Sampling 7,000 - year - old ice cores as well as snowpack dating from 1969 through the mid-1990s, Barbante's team found that concentrations of the metals had risen almost sevenfold since the mid-1970s, when catalytic converters first came into widespread use.
The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.
Researchers also think it's possible that over thousands of years, the diamonds slowly sink through the planets» ice layers and assemble into a thick layer around the core.
The Perseid shower reaches its peak once a year, in mid-August, when Earth's orbit carries the planet through the debris stream left behind by Comet Swift - Tuttle, a 26 - kilometer body that sheds ice and dust as it orbits the sun.
Many worry that expanding traffic over the next few years is all too likely to cause an environmentally disastrous accident because the ice won't be completely cleared for decades — it will have cleared just enough that inexperienced mariners will recklessly try to push through.
«Even though some Arctic locations haven't been as warm this year, you can still melt through 3 feet of the ice, whereas in the past, you might have needed to melt through 6 or 8 feet of ice in that area,» Meier said.
Some say humans could have crossed through an opening between the ice sheets, but these new findings show that passage was likely closed until 13,400 years ago.
Whenever the ice does start to disappear, the researchers estimate it will take another 90 years or so for surface melting to eat through the estimated 60 meters of ice that will cover the camp by then.
These big game hunters spread their Clovis spearpoints — long and thin with distinctive hollows carved into both sides of the base — across the United States and northern Mexico starting about 13,000 years ago, when they arrived via an ice - free corridor through glacier - covered Alaska and western Canada.
Through satellite images, researchers have observed a steep decline in the average extent of Arctic sea ice for every month of the year.
But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.
Ash was part of Expedition 374, which spent 46 days at sea this year to study the evolution of the Ross Sea ice sheet off West Antarctica and the relationship between climatic and oceanic change through the Neogene and Quaternary periods, from 23 million years ago to the present day.
Methane changes much more quickly than CO2 in the ice core records, through the Younger Dryas for example, which lasted 1000 years, methane goes back to glacial values while CO2 sort of hovers in place.
Marine Biologists work out of the base all year round, diving through the ice if need be.
There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which it is thought to have exited after several million years because global ice - cover shut off the carbonate - silicate cycle, thereby allowing greenhouse gases to build up to sufficient concentration to melt the ice.
Through observing the rising and falling of ice surface elevation, researchers have found that 124 of these lakes fill and drain on timescales of months to years.
reconstructing sea - level and ice - sheet changes on timescales ranging from the 20th century, to the late Holocene, to the last 150 thousand years, through statistical and geophysical modeling of geological and observational records;
Antarctic sea ice extent increased rapidly through June and early July, and reached new daily record highs through most of this year.
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