Sentence examples for declining ice from inspiring English sources
This may be because in the recently glaciated Swedish landscape, the ice sheet itself and the melt water from the declining ice sheet have transported soil material over large distances and/or because of low sampling density in many parts of the country.
The study finds that even with declining ice overall, the waters of the Northwest Passage are still chock full of thick ice in the winter, much of which may still be able to persist in summertime, detracting from the predictability of navigation.
[photo size='medium' align='left']http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2012/01/20110302_Figure3-copy.jpg[/photo]Our latest paper also documents the declining ice conditions in harp seal breeding regions across the North Atlantic over the past 32 years.
The new data also add context to sensationalist media stories about declining ice in small portions of Antarctica, such as portions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula (see here, for example).
The fact that we detected such high whale densities in late season feeding aggregations across multiple bays poses interesting questions about the timing and needs for migrations to low latitudes, and the roles that large feeding aggregations may play in dynamics between krill, their predators and declining ice conditions in the WAP.
The declining sea ice minimum is regarded by scientists as a harbinger of climate change.
It was another year of declining sea ice in the Arctic.
Declining sea ice and other recent observations fit with these predictions.
Some of Fraser's colleagues were skeptical of his thesis about the central role played by declining sea ice.
Dr. Hoerling said he had run computer analyses that failed to confirm a widespread effect outside the Arctic from declining sea ice.
