Sentence examples for glacial decline from inspiring English sources
Given the advantages of incumbency, even sluggish growth and a glacial decline in the 9.1 percent unemployment rate could preserve the current divided government.
TERI plans to include Kolahoi in an index of benchmark glaciers that span the Himalayas, part of an overdue attempt to monitor the rate of glacial decline in the range.
Chapter 9 profiles the impact of climate change and anthropogenic threats on alpine areas in northwest China and their flow-on effect to other countries (particularly to reduced water flow contribution to major river systems in Asia as a result of the glacial decline).
They found that glacial extent had declined from 2077 square km in 1962 to 1628 square km at present, or about 21%.
That is because his paired photos show a dramatic decline in glacial ice.
The assumption that the North American glacial masses grew and declined in tandem is less tenable than it once was.
Most striking is the population decline, observed during Last Glacial Maximum i.e. 23 to 19 kyBP [ 25] and Late Glacial Aridity i.e. 18 to 14 kyBP [ 26], followed by many fold population growth in a comparatively short period of time.
For example, geochemist Martin Kennedy of the University of California, Los Angeles, has carbon isotopic data from Namibia, but they show no deep productivity decline before the Namibian glacial deposits.
"Glacial mass and annual snowcover are declining more rapidly than many scientists had predicted".
Although the synthesis documents strong variability both spatial and temporal in fluvial stratigraphy, climatic events such as the decline in precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum and monsoon intensification in the early Holocene have influenced fluvial dynamics throughout the region.
This is consistent with a population decline, possibly during a series of glacial advances during ice-age(s), followed by an incomplete recovery, possibly due to competition with emerging angiosperm species and a loss of range.
