由于北极的大片浮冰向南移动，挪威人的航行路线由向西航行改成了向开阔的大西洋航行，后来向西的航行整个都终止了。
As the Arctic ice pack spread southward, Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then ended altogether.
浮冰和冰山对钻机和人员构成多种威胁。
The ice pack and icebergs pose various threats to drilling RIGS and crews.
‘不久北极夏天不会再有浮冰，’挪威外相说道。
'Soon there will be no summer Arctic ice,' says Norway's foreign minister. Photograph: pr.
有一次，队伍帐篷所在的浮冰破裂，所幸无人受伤。
At one point an ice floe the team's tent was moored on broke apart, although no one was injured.
在季节性冰冻地带海冰浮冰块大小分布的特性。
Characteristics of sea ice floe size distribution in the seasonal ice zone.
我还没反应过来，它的主人史密斯就已经在水里，努力穿过浮冰了。
Before I knew it, the owner Smith was in the water forcing his way through the ice.
它们常常把小海象留在浮冰上，以避免陆地上拥挤海象群的碰撞。
They often keep their young on ice floes to avoid the crush of the jostling walrus crowds on land.
在图片上，冰山和冰舌范围以外的海水呈现黑色，而且浮冰很少。
The water beyond the tongue and the iceberg is black in these images, and contains far less ice.
这些聚集的小块浮冰碎块形成漩涡状，看起来像拿铁咖啡的泡沫。
Collectively these tiny ice fragments form delicate swirls of ice that resemble foam on latte.
他看着四周正在融化的浮冰，我却可以清楚地看见他那颗随之融化的心。
He stares at the disappearing ice around him and I can see clearly that his heart is melting too.
两名搜救成员用降落伞落到一块更大的浮冰上，然后匍匐着去够他。
Two crew members parachuted on to a larger floe, and then crawled on their bellies to reach him.
6月初，覆冰率(定义为洋面浮冰率15%以上的水域比例)远低于常年水平。
By the beginning of June, the ice cover-as defined by the percentage of ocean covered by at least 15% floating ice-had dropped far below what is usual for the time of year.
北极区夏季的海上浮冰和北半球冬天的气温之间的联系最早在1914年被提出。
A link between summer sea ice in the Arctic and winter temperatures in the northern hemisphere was first proposed in 1914.
接着，斯凯瑞拿着相机，从浮冰的间隙中潜入与知床半岛接壤的鄂霍次克海水域。
And then, camera in hand, Skerry dives between the ice floes into the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, bordering the Shiretoko Peninsula.
首先，因为浮冰是白色的，它把太阳的热量反射回去，阻止它进入海洋。
Because it's white, it bounces back heat from the sun, preventing it from entering the sea.
“这块蓝色的浮冰很快就会融化，”艾里亚说，“现在融冰比以前更快了。”
"This blue berg will be melted away soon," Eliyah says. "Ice seems to melt faster than it once did."
根据北极科学家的报告，数以千计的海象罕见地通过浮冰大规模迁移到阿拉斯加沿岸的旱地上。
Scientists in the Arctic are reporting a rare mass migration of thousands of walrus from the ice floes to dry land along Alaska's coast.
所有的海上浮冰都从两极消失了，安第斯山脉、阿尔卑斯山脉以及落基山脉上的冰川也消失了。
All sea ice is gone from both poles; mountain glaciers are gone from the Andes, Alps and Rockies.
专家们认为这个浮冰岛会撞上陆地，碎成较小的浮冰，或者缓慢向南移动而阻碍船只。
Experts believe the island could fuse to land, break up into smaller pieces, or slowly move south where it could block shipping.
他们有时滑雪代步，有时步行，有时则乘坐皮艇，越过无数交错着雪泥覆盖小路的浮冰迷宫。
Traveling sometimes by skis, sometimes on foot, sometimes in kayaks, they negotiated endless mazes of rafted ice intersected by slushy leads.
融化的海冰影响着生态系统和水流，但它不影响海平面，因为浮冰已经置换了相同重量的水。
Melting sea ice affects ecosystems and currents. It does not affect sea levels, because floating ice is already displacing water of a weight equal to its own.
阿拉斯加地区的海象——尤其是正处于繁殖期的雌海象，在夏秋季节通常活跃在北极的大片浮冰上。
Alaska's walrus, especially breeding females, in summer and fall are usually found on the Arctic ice pack.
去年，与南极半岛相连的巨大盘状浮冰威尔金斯冰架开始碎裂，在六个月内失去大约两千平方公里。
And last year the Wilkins shelf, a huge plate of floating ice attached to the peninsula, started to break up, losing some 2,000 sq km in six months.
去年，与南极半岛相连的巨大盘状浮冰威尔金斯冰架开始碎裂，在六个月内失去大约两千平方公里。
And last year the Wilkins shelf, a huge plate of floating ice attached to the peninsula, started to break up, losing some 2, 000 sq km in six months.
彼得曼冰川曾在2001年和2008年产生了较小的浮冰岛(34平方英里和10平方英里)。
Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles) and 2008 (10 square miles).
在很多地方，尤其是班克斯岛周边，陆地边沿的海上浮冰是蓝色的，表明冰层较薄或浮冰上有水。
Ice still fringes much of the land, but it is thinning. In many places, particularly around Banks Island, the land-bound sea ice is blue, pointing to thin ice or the presence of water on the ice.
加拿大努勒维特·伊格·卢利克附近，在浮冰上漂流时，一头大西洋小海象在母亲的背上找到了安全感。
An Atlantic walrus calf finds safety on its mother's back while drifting on an ice floe near Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada.
他们的土地几乎寸草不生；他们在沙漠荒野里放牧牲口；人们从看上去像闪光的浮冰的物质中提炼盐块。
Almost nothing grows on their land; their animals graze on desert bushes; the people mine ingots of salt from what looks like shimmering pack ice.
海象在消化食物时，经常利用浮冰休息。它们食物一般由用象牙和有力的嘴唇从海底撬出的贝类食物组成。
Walruses frequently use ice floes to rest while they digest a meal, usually consisting of shellfish pried from the seafloor using their long tusks and strong lips.
最近一次如此大的浮冰岛的形成发生在1962年，当时加拿大的沃德亨特冰架崩解形成个小岛。
The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Canadian Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island.
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