Sentence examples for retreating fast from inspiring English sources

But glaciers in the eastern Himalayas and the east of the Tibetan plateau are retreating fast.

Glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau, from which 40% of the world derives its fresh water, are retreating fast, said Yao Tandong, a researcher with the Chinese academy of sciences.

A recent study by the Indian Space Research Organization, using satellite imaging to gauge the changes to 466 glaciers, has found more than a 20percentt reduction in size from 1962 to 2001, with bigger glaciers breaking into smaller pieces, each one retreating faster than its parent.

Satellite observations have established that the Arctic ice is retreating faster than expected and global ocean surface wave models have to be extended to cover the polar region in the future.

Morse Glacier is its tributary and is also retreating faster than the Muir.

At that speed, the world retreats fast; entire landscapes dissolve into broad swaths of color.

Khan gets through with quick combinations but can never retreat fast enough without getting caught.

If this link is confirmed then we can only expect more and worse extreme weather in future years, since sea ice is retreating so fast that the summer ice cover is likely to completely disappear within a decade or so, maybe even this year or next.

In Tomales Bay and elsewhere, the leopard shark follows the tide onto mudflats to forage for food, retreating just fast enough to prevent being stranded or trapped as the water recedes.

Snow had retreated unusually fast from the mountain peaks that ring this corner of Idaho.

"Immediately upstream of the grounding line there is a 7 kilometer long region — we call it an ice plain because the slopes are really flat, and for this part of the glacier, it could retreat very fast, in a couple of decades or so," says Li.