Sentence examples for ice shrinkage from inspiring English sources
Inherited, glacial landforms, such as lateral moraines, highland plateau and exhumed U shaped-valleys, are now being exposed in north Keller by ice shrinkage of former ice protecting cover.
Finally, in more sobering news from the Copenhagen Climate Congress, ScienceInsider blogged on alarming new results regarding polar ice shrinkage and the unappreciated threat of soil carbon.
In Alaska, the effects of sea ice shrinkage have contributed to higher mortality rates in polar bear cubs, and have led to changes in the denning locations of pregnant females.
Researchers do not know whether or not this is a new behavior; before polar ice shrinkage, they opined that there was probably neither the need nor opportunity to swim such long distances.
The first biological data ever collected on sea ice ridges in the Alaska region suggest high potential importance of these structures at a time of ice shrinkage because of the abundance of ice meiofauna and under-ice amphipods is high along their deep-reaching keels [334].
"In those places where ice-shelf shrinkage and ice-stream acceleration have been observed, there is little or no passive ice shelf, confirming the inference that these places are sensitive to additional warming and ice-shelf loss, and likely have been subject to ice-shelf loss in the past," added Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State University who was not involved in the study.
ON SEPTEMBER 9th, at the height of its summertime shrinkage, ice covered 4.33m square km, or 1.67m square miles, of the Arctic Ocean, according to America's National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).
The new study pins down several dates and locations that trace the ice sheet's shrinkage.
Because of the ice sheet's shrinkage from 1900 to 2010, the sea levels have risen about 1 inch, the scientists concluded.
The state has said in its appeals court filing that bears have survived previous warming periods and most populations have grown or remained stable despite shrinkage of ice.
This was achieved with a technique called 'high pressure freezing' that combines jets of liquid nitrogen with very high pressures to instantaneously preserve small samples without causing damage through the formation of ice crystals, or any shrinkage and distortion.
