Sentence examples for ice has retreated from inspiring English sources

Snow and ice has retreated, spring is coming earlier.

This is no anomaly: since the 1970s the sea ice has retreated by around 12% each decade.

The obvious inference is that the ice has retreated far further this year than before and we will need to check previous years' satellite data to confirm this.

Seven major oil companies have licenses to explore off Greenland but Cairn will be the only one to begin operations in the short July-October "summer window" when the ice has retreated.

The shifts in the extent and thickness of sea ice in the Arctic (where ice has retreated significantly in recent summers) and Antarctic (where the area of floating sea ice has grown lately) are similarly hard to attribute to particular influences.

Five domes ringing the summit plateau have emerged as the ice has retreated.

It said the ice had retreated further still since the atlas was published in September 2014.

By the end of August, several weeks before the end of the summer melt season, Arctic sea ice had retreated to its smallest extent since satellite records began in 1979.

It may have been no accident that civilization burst forth during an era when ice had retreated from some of the most favorable land and when climate, sea level and other conditions had settled down after the turbulence of the ice age.

Those plants appeared in antarctic waters since 1.3 million years ago, so Scherer took their presence as evidence that the ice had retreated at least that long ago.

He had noted that the ice had retreated almost all the way up.