Sentence examples for completely ice from inspiring English sources

The lakes tend to be completely ice free in summer for a short period of roughly 8-10 weeks and then freeze up again with the onset of colder temperatures in Autumn.

Some climate researchers from the Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder Colorado now believe that these warming Arctic waters could be completely ice free in a few years.

The whole 470,000 sq mile bay was completely ice-free.

"In just over 30 years we have altered the way our planet looks from space and soon the north pole may be completely ice-free in summer.

At that point, although there would continue to be seasonal ice that forms in winter, in summer the Arctic Ocean would be completely ice-free.

The International Joint Commission, a binational organization that manages and protects boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada, predicts that Lake Superior could be completely ice-free in the next two to three decades.

But this is now thought to be over-optimistic: the melting is accelerating so fast that many scientists believe the Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free in summer by 2030.

The researchers found the South Orkney Islands were likely to become completely ice-free by 2100 if global temperatures exceeded 2C of warming, leading to what the researchers described as "a complete transformation of the physical environment" there.

"We are on the path of the highest scenario [of global warming] in reality, but if you take a medium scenario in the Alps about 70% will be gone by the middle of the century, and mountain ranges like the Pyrenees may be completely ice-free".

And the waste and emissions of these factories are not only making the world increasingly uninhabitable, but soon enough could put your corporate headquarters underwater – literally – with the north pole in danger of becoming completely ice-free in just a few years' time.

Summer sea ice has been vanishing faster than even the gloomiest researchers thought likely, with some now predicting the first completely ice-free summer as soon as the 2020s.The Arctic is not, though, isolated from the rest of the world; rapid changes there could have knock-on effects elsewhere.