The melting ice cover will destroy the great Antarctic wilderness.
正在融化的冰层将摧毁广袤的南极荒野。
Indeed, sea ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.
事实上，覆盖在北极的海中的冰正在以比预期更快的速度融化。
King penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.
帝企鹅是企鹅的第二大种类，它们只在南大洋的特定孤岛上繁殖，那里没有冰层覆盖，很容易进入大海。
Indeed, sea-ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.
事实上，北极海冰的融化速度比预期的要快。
Thus, although the winter sea-ice cover might decrease, the surface waters would remain cold enough so that the decrease would not be excessive.
因此，虽然冬季海冰覆盖面积可能减少，但表层水将足够冰冷，因此海冰覆盖面积不会减少太多。
The discrepancy can be explained by long term changes in vegetation and ice cover.
植被和冰层覆盖的长期变化能够说明这种差异。
The simulated circulation and sea ice cover agree well with the observed data.
模拟出的南大洋环流和海冰与已有的实测结果符合良好。
In 2008 and 2009, scientists feared the record-thin Arctic ice cover might melt away.
在2008年和2009年，科学家们担心那个记录——薄北极冰盖可能全部融化。
Ice cover for 2008 was almost as bad as for 2007, and this year levels look equally sparse.
2008年的冰层覆盖情况几乎和2007一样糟，今年的情况仍然没有好转。
The extent of sea ice cover and its thickness are measures of the health of the Arctic.
海冰覆盖范围及其厚度是衡量北极健康状况的指标。
The study found an average ice cover of about fifteen million square kilometers in March.
研究发现三月的平均冰覆盖量大约是一千五百万平方公里。
Arctic sea-ice cover reached its lowest ever recorded average level for the month of June.
六月，北极海冰的覆盖面积达到历史平均记录的最低点。
These huge, slow-moving masses of ice cover about seventy-five thousand square kilometers.
这些庞大的，移动缓慢的巨大冰块覆盖了大约七万五千平方公里。
The amount of ice cover and its thickness are two measures of the health of the Arctic Sea.
冰盖的数量和它的厚度是检测北冰洋是否健康的两个标准。
For example, an icy Equator alone can't tell scientists the extent of ice cover around the world.
比如说一个结冰的赤道，单独来讲并不能证明冰层向全球延伸的观点。
In just one year, the Arctic Ocean has lost an area of year-round ice cover the size of Texas.
一年之内，北冰洋就将失去面积相当于德克萨斯州的冰川。
Therefore, changes in the sea ice cover have a significant effect on the global energy balance.
因此，海冰覆盖状态的变化能给全球能量平衡带来巨大影响。
But as it happened, ice cover in 2008 and 2009 rebounded significantly - but perhaps deceptively so.
但由于风吹过，冰盖面积在2008年和2009年明显回升-但也许这些只是暂时的假象。
Because of climate change, the Arctic Ocean's summer ice cover is now half of what it was 50 years ago.
由于气候变化，北冰洋夏季的冰覆盖量现在仅是50年前的一半。
One of the scientists says the past six years have shown the lowest Arctic sea ice cover ever measured.
其中一个科学家表示过去的六年是北冰洋冰川从测量以来覆盖最少的一段时间。
Pervasive ice cover for eight to nine months out of the year can block relief ships in case of a blowout.
如果发生井喷，一年中八到九个月无处不在的冰盖会阻挡救援船队。
He says changes to the ice cover also affect Arctic wildlife and people who depend on the local environment.
他说冰盖的变化也会对北极的野生动物和依赖环境生存的人类有影响。
The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover to a record low for December last month, the WMO said in a statement.
世界气象组织称，这个趋势使北冰洋的冰雪覆盖面于上个月十二月份达到历史最低。
The paper divides regionally the flow under the ice cover and gives flow conditions of the regional boundary surface.
本文对冰覆盖下的河道水流进行了区域划分，给出了区域分界面上的水流条件。
A couple of high winds here, an abnormal cold snap there, and ice cover that had looked fragile can suddenly appear robust.
这里几股疾风，那里一袭非同寻常的寒流，而且先貌似不堪一击的冰盖突然变得结实。
"Polar bears are unlikely to survive as a species if there is an almost complete loss of summer sea-ice cover," the report said.
如果在夏季海上冰川全部消失，北极熊作为一个物种将无法存活下来。
Snow and ice cover the lid for them, everything was quiet, no music, no dance, which is donated to their nature back to a grand funeral.
冰雪为它们盖上了棺盖，一切都安静了，没有音乐，没有舞步，这是大自然回赠给他们的一个隆重的葬礼。
Eruptions at glaciated volcanoes typically destroy ice fields, as they did in 1980 when 70 of Mount Saint Helens ice cover was demolished.
已冻结成冰的火山爆发会毁掉冰田，就想1980年当70%圣海伦山的冰盖就是这样被摧毁的。
Then as a result of the decreasing ice cover which means the North-West Passage is opening up it kept on going before heading south into the Atlantic.
西北通道是北冰洋中连接太平洋和大西洋的一条通道，常年覆盖着冰雪。
These huge, slow-moving masses of ice cover about seventy-five thousand square kilometers. About one hundred thousand of these rivers of ice flow down mountains.
这些巨大的、缓慢流动的冰河，其覆盖面积达75000平方公里，在这些冰河中大约有十万条冰河流下山。
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