| 单词 | icecap |
| 例句 | The polar icecap had made Antarctica a frozen desert. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The cold air masses created by this icecap clash with the warm winds from the ocean to churn up a storm belt that surrounds the continent, making the Southern Ocean the most treacherous sea anywhere. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z By diverting snowmelt from the ever-present Andes icecaps to high farm terraces, Wari was able literally to rise above the drought and flooding of lower elevations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The serious, systematic study of medicine was intensifying, and to scientists the human body was like the polar icecap, something to be studied and explored. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This mammoth icecap presses down so heavily that it actually distorts the shape of the earth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Mountain View from West Olympia,” with its tiramisu-like layers of sky, bright cloud, dark cloud, Mount Rainier icecap and forest horizon, is a case in point. ‘Women in Photography’ explores diverse possibilities of familiar medium 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the polar icecaps melt, sea levels rise, hundreds of thousands of species may go extinct, fires rage, hurricanes boil, people continue to suffer and die. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z It must be global warming: as the icecaps melt and crops wither, so do all the single available men. The TV Watch: ‘The Mindy Project’ and ‘Ben and Kate,’ New Fox Series 2012-09-24T21:56:50Z If this political thread weren’t enough, the film also takes an apocalyptic turn in its concern with the melting of the icecaps and the imminence of planetary catastrophe. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Melting icecaps, rising sea levels and the destruction of coastal cities — all of this was narrated to a global audience in a tone that was somber, sober and unifying. Why the Rio Olympics opening ceremony matters 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z To hazards like icecap cracks, nuclear leaks and rising seas, add another environmental threat: language fallout. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z A week ago, 12 international scientists released new data on 2023’s nightmare conditions, including record-breaking heat, droughts, extreme weather and melting icecaps. Clean energy, not expanding gas pipeline, is WA's future | Editorial 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z We dug deep channels into the icecap and ran hundreds of meters worth of cable, we used chainsaws to cut blocks of ice that had encased the station's pillar supports. Astrophysics and stale beer: What life is like working at the South Pole 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z In contemplating biosignatures, astrobiologists gained new knowledge into how basic life on Earth can endure in extreme environments — under icecaps, for example, or near hydrothermal vents. The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Earth was warmer at the time, lacking icecaps, and climate models suggest that latitude on Pangaea had a wet, temperate climate with hot summers and cool, rainy winters. ‘I’ve got a dinosaur!’ African find illuminates dawn of dinos 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z There were no icecaps, and water levels were higher. Discoveries shed new light on the day the dinosaurs died 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Earth’s northern icecap is heating about three times faster than the rest of the planet, disrupting a fragile ecosystem. First drone goes flying to the North Pole on a climate mission 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Climate change has also pushed the mountain’s glaciers and icecaps to thaw. Fires on Slopes of Kilimanjaro Threaten a Diverse Ecosystem 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Evidence for such tipping points is growing — for example in the unexpectedly rapid melting of the Arctic icecap. Avenger planet: Is the COVID-19 pandemic Mother Nature’s response to human transgression? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z From melting icecaps to wildfires and droughts, the heart of the exhibition is the difference in world views between native and non-native people. How artwork shows the impact of climate crisis on indigenous Americans 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In all that time, the Earth continues to warm, icecaps continue to recede, biodiversity continues to plummet and people continue to be displaced. It’s our turn to fix the climate future we’ve inherited 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The rising sea level produced by melting glaciers and icecaps will also jeopardize the well-being of the human race in the future. Climate change: Put the best minds to work 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z That voice is hoarse, tired of shouting about the icecaps, extremist politics, and the way empathy for others keeps shrinking as life gets tougher, and human interactions become more transactional. Russell T. Davies’ Years and Years is Black Mirror with a heart 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z A daily drumbeat of reports confirms that warming oceans, melting icecaps and rising sea levels are more likely to drown coastal swamps than to drain them. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “It’s gone. For the first time in recorded history, the entire Greenland icecap is melting.” Paul Nicklen: ‘If we lose the ice, we lose the entire ecosystem’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Back then, researchers measured lead levels at a few places along the length of cores extracted from Greenland’s icecap—with each measurement representing a 2-year period. Rise and fall of Roman Empire exposed in Greenland ice samples 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The viewer is confronted with scenes of slaves in chains, packed together below deck; a polar bear shot to death; a whale sliced open for blubber, bleeding; icecaps melting; seaborne atom-bomb tests. Artists are rediscovering the oceans that surround them 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise. On its hundredth birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming | Benjamin Franta 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Depending on the speed at which icecaps and glaciers melt, this could take decades or more than a century. From Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities underwater 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Many natural processes can provide this tiny increment of stress, including the movement of plate tectonics, a melting icecap, and even human activities. California’s rain may shed light on new questions about what causes earthquakes 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The cost may climb even higher, depending on how water levels rise in a world with unstable icecaps. Editorials from around Oregon 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “The heat is melting the icecap,” a voice intoned in the Maracana Stadium. Rio delivers a simple, but spirited, Olympic welcome 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Shrinking icecaps have National Geographic making the biggest change in its atlas since the Soviet Union broke apart. Read Obama's 2014 Commencement Address at UC-Irvine 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Climate change is synonymous with rising temperatures, extreme weather events and melting icecaps. Health Buzz: Zika Spread Worsened by Climate Change 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Each effect will reinforce the other, possibly raising the temperature enough to melt the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland, which would flood the earth’s coastal lands. Scientists Have Known About Climate Change for a Lot Longer Than You May Think 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The Martian polar icecaps also contain water, but it is frozen and therefore less useful to living organisms. Water Flows on Mars Today, NASA Announces 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Britain used to be connected by land to Europe during the Ice Age but melting icecaps pushed seas higher about 10,000 years ago. Stone Age Britons imported wheat in shock sign of sophistication 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In 2010, an ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days after an eruption under the icecap. Iceland volcano spews more lava, but no ash 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Of course, that’s because the problem they cause is indirect, by getting trapped in the earth’s atmosphere, and casuing it to heat up, melt icecaps, raise sea level, cause smog, breathing problems, etc… The 8 most absurd reactions to Obama’s new climate change mandate 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Everybody will be able to see everything from crops growing to traffic jamming to armies invading to icecaps melting. Op-Ed Contributor: Finding a Flash Drive in the Sea 2014-04-28T23:54:48Z In an age of increasing freak storms, heatwaves and melting icecaps, the arts and even the British police, he says, are needed to persuade governments and institutions that massive change is necessary to avoid apocalypse. Banks face invasion of golden toads in environmental protest 2013-07-21T19:23:59Z Greenland is home to the second largest icecap in world. British man dies on Greenland trek 2013-05-01T06:01:20Z Temperatures are rising, icecaps and glaciers are melting, and extreme weather is more frequent and intense. Obama—Listen Up! 2013-01-17T09:45:00Z The rest is composed of saltwater or locked up in glaciers and icecaps. San Diego Fishing for Fresh Drinking Water in Pacific Ocean 2012-12-10T14:35:51Z Other glaciers and mountain icecaps contain enough water to raise sea levels by nearly a meter. Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels 2012-02-08T18:10:48Z Irrigation Raises Sea Levels Melting glaciers and icecaps aren't the only things raising sea levels—so is watering your lawn. The Year in Pictures 2011-12-22T19:11:37Z Melting glaciers and icecaps aren't the only things raising sea levels—so is watering your lawn. ScienceShot: Irrigation Raises Sea Levels 2011-10-04T18:28:02Z This is largely due to the rapid melting of the Arctic icecap. Climate Change Effects in Arctic More Extensive than Expected 2011-05-06T16:14:00Z Melting of the icecap would add several metres to sea level around the world. Greenland glaciers' warm surprise 2011-01-26T18:52:29Z But because the costs of global warming — from the melting of icecaps to the flooding of islands — is so high, Dr. Schneider maintained, not acting is riskier than acting. Stephen H. Schneider, Climatologist, Is Dead at 65 2010-07-20T05:20:00Z He crossed the icecap at a point farther north than the routes that have been discussed heretofore, but almost on the most direct or Great Circle route from Detroit to Copenhagen. The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 This is one of the prime causes of a constantly changing icecap. Deathworld Climates were equalizing themselves, the polar icecaps were melting and spots previously too cold for Cynodon dactylon were now covered. Greener Than You Think All of our water is gathered at the polar icecaps, from whence we lead it as it melts through underground pipes hundreds of miles to the spot where we desire vegetation to grow. Giants on the Earth Koshchei grew larger and larger ahead; the polar icecaps, and the faint dappling of clouds, and the dark wiggling lines on the otherwise uniform red-brown surface which were mountain ranges became visible. The Cosmic Computer The disk had icecaps and a reasonable proportion of land and water surface. This World Is Taboo The North American continent stretches between two oceans and from the northern icecaps to the southern tropics. Scorched Earth But they had scarcely gained the summit of the icecap and started the journey to the west before troubles again began to gather round them. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition The south polar region was also markedly glaciated, though the icecap was not as extensive as either of those at the poles of the earth. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future It had icecaps at its poles, and there were seas, and the mottled look of land which had that carefully maintained balance of woodland and cultivated areas which was so effective in climate control. This World Is Taboo |
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