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Science and the Environment Bulletin: What's Happening to Arctic Ice?
What's Happening to Arctic Ice? What's Happening to Arctic Ice? Sea ice in Canada's Arctic and sub-Arctic regions has ... Canada's Arctic waters are covered by an essentially solid ice pack throughout winter. The ice starts to break up in July, permitting a three ... there was any quantitative trend to this pattern, the Ice Service digitized the weekly ice charts it has produced for the Canadian Arctic ...
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News archive 2001
Greener land More evidence has indicated the Greenland ice pack to be in retreat. The ice sheet has apparently thinned by around 15cm in the ... record spanning over 80 years. The record comes from measurements of ice melt in the Tenana river, Alaska, made annually as part of the 'Nenana Ice Classic' sweepstake. 19th October 2001 Vanishing clouds Deforestation in lowland Costa ...
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Mercury Policy Project
Arctic Ocean, about 500 kilometres from the North Pole. ... shows a major melting of the polar ice cap. ''With climate warming, we get a thinning of the arctic ice pack and more open water, and ... the ice pack has become so thin that the research camp was nearly was lost several times when the ice around it split apart. The ice also ...
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SoundNet - Cetaceans Fight For Survival, Against Man-Made Odds
If Antarctic ice continues to melt as a result of global warming, whale habitats could change dramatically. Says ... whales feed on concentrations of krill that live along the ice edges and in the ice pack. If their habitat is changed--loss of ice, loss of food--then they have nowhere else to ...
www.oceania.org.au

SCS: Ross Seal (Ommatophoca rossii)
Antarctic seals. The species is mostly found on the pack ice around the Antarctic continent, with a wide but dispersed circumpolar distribution. It is very difficult ... are usually observed as solitary individuals, appearing to prefer larger and more concentrated ice located further in from the ice pack edge than that preferred by leopard and crabeater seals. There is not ...
www.pinnipeds.org

Kind Planet Preparing For Disaster
Animals in your family, highlighting identifying markings. The pictures should be put in your emergency pack. Temporary Restraints Because Dogs can sometimes slip out of collars, harnesses can assist in ... keep medications refrigerated, have a chemical ice pack ready in your freezer and a ice chest for storage as a part of your pack. If you care for Rabbits, pack an extra thermometer, baby aspirin ...
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Global Warming Facts and Our Future - Impacts of Change - Ecosystems
The two species depend on different habitats for survival: Adélies inhabit the winter ice pack, whereas Chinstraps remain in close association with open water. A 7°–9°F ... temperatures on the western Antarctic Peninsula during the past 50 years, and associated receding sea-ice pack, is reflected in their changing populations. Shifting penguin populations The Chinstrap penguin (left) has ...
koshlandscience.org

Niagara Falls: Ice Bridges and Ice Booms - a History
With or without the ice boom, only 2% of all ice from Lake Erie enters the Niagara River. The remainder (98%) of the ice pack melts in Lake Erie. The ice boom does not prevent the ice in Lake Erie from melting any sooner or later. Studies have shown that the ice boom holding back the ice pack ...
niagarafrontier.com

(Robert Grumbine) Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology Subject: Arctic ice pack was Re: Global Warming Debate: Date: 13 Jul 1997 17: ... of the Arctic ice pack, there is peer-reviewed journal work already in print to support the argument that the Arctic ice pack has ... Arctic ice pack has been shrinking over the last two decades. Besides, it's spring now, of course the Arctic ice pack is melting. ...
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Science and the Environment Bulletin: What's Happening to Arctic Ice? - Print Version
What's Happening to Arctic Ice? - Print Version What's Happening to Arctic Ice? Sea ice in Canada's Arctic and sub-Arctic ... Canada's Arctic waters are covered by an essentially solid ice pack throughout winter. The ice starts to break up in July, permitting a ... there was any quantitative trend to this pattern, the Ice Service digitized the weekly ice charts it has produced for the Canadian Arctic ...
www.ec.gc.ca