一旦与冰架脱离，这些冰山就会受到南极洲附近的洋流和季风系统的作用，并开始漂移。人们可以在南极洲较暗淡的冰山群中找到这些散落的冰山。
Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.
近代的探险队已经从绿色冰山和冰核中带回了一些冰块样本，这些样本呈垂直的圆柱状，是沿着南极洲大陆的冰川冰架从极深的位置中取出的。
Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.
埃默里冰架似乎是唯一适合形成绿色冰山的地方。
The Amery Ice Shelf appears to be uniquely suited to the production of green icebergs.
冰架的边缘变薄将导致冰河流动更快。
Thinning of the ice shelf at the fringes leads toglaciers moving more quickly.
一座巨大的冰山依偎在南极冰架的怀抱。
An enormous iceberg nestles into an ice shelf in Antarctica.
许多动物的生命依赖于这些冰架。
巨大的威尔金斯冰架目前几乎不再贴附在陆地上。
The enormous Wilkins ice shelf is now barely attached to land.
所以我们假设，冰融是来自海洋，正从下面融化冰架。
So the hypothesis was that it was coming from the ocean, which was melting the ice shelf from below.
图右侧的海湾中堆满了冰架崩塌后留下的积雪和冰山。
The bay (image right) is filled with slush and icebergs from the collapsed shelf.
冰架仅仅是底部向海里突出的漂浮物，它的融化不影响海平面。
The melting of an ice shelf, which is merely a floating projection into the sea, would not affect sea levels.
观看我们的动画——北极圈后退的冰架和那些可能被释放的航线。
Watch our animation of the receding Arctic ice-shelf and the shipping routes it could unlock.
由于冰架的分离，海湾周围大多数冰川的流动明显变快了。
The loss of the shelf caused the flow of most of the glaciers around the bay to accelerate significantly.
这组按照时间先后顺序排列的图片体现了冰架瓦解的过程。
This time-lapse series of images shows the progression of the ice breakup.
在未来40年里，南极洲冰架将缩减7200多平方英里。
Ice shelves in the Antarctic will have decreased by more than 7, 200 square miles in the next four decades.
在未来40年里，南极洲冰架将缩减7200多平方英里。
Ice shelves in the Antarctic will have decreased by more than 7,200 square miles in the next four decades.
威尔金斯冰架可能是，或者也有可能不是气候变化的受害者。
The Wilkins shelf may or may not have been the victim, ultimately, of climate change.
对冰川延伸到海洋的部分——南极冰架来说，也没有好消息。
Neither is the news good for Antarctica's ice shelves-glaciers that extend into the ocean.
西南极冰架的不稳定部分一旦融化，会让海平面上升10英尺。
There is 10 feet of sea level rise stored up in the unstable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
但较高的海洋温度会造成冰山和冰架融化，这引起了海平面上升。
But higher ocean temperatures cause icebergs and ice shelves to melt, which raises sea level.
它是这30年里南极半岛坍塌的第八个冰架，是全球加速变暖的有力佐证。
The eighth ice-shelf collapse on the peninsula in 30 years, it is further evidence of an acceleration in warming.
上图拍摄于拉尔森B冰架崩解的大约两个月之后的2002年4月6日。
The top image was captured on April 6, 2002, about two months after the dramatic collapse.
如果冰流加速，冰的流失加速，南极冰架的质量将会减轻，从而重力会变小。
If ice streams speed up and drain the ice faster, ice mass will be lost from Antarctica, and gravity will go down a fraction.
冰山是由雪形成的冰架或冰川断裂而成，主要由淡水冰组成，一般漂浮在开阔海域。
Icebergs are large pieces of freshwater ice that break off snow-formed ice shelves or glaciers and float in open water.
在2000年，几个巨大的冰山从南极洲的罗斯冰架和朗尼冰架上脱落，现在正漂离南极洲。
Several huge icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf in 2000 and are now drifting away from Antarctica.
威尔金斯冰架的变化发生得很快，经常使科学家们为它的破碎速率之快而感到惊讶。
Change at Wilkins has come fast, often taking scientists by surprise with the speed of the break-up.
在一座座四面伸展开去的冰架正在分崩瓦解的年代里，这座冰山的出现更显得意味深长。
At a time when sprawling shelves of ice are disintegrating, this berg seemed to signify more.
在一座座四面伸展开去的冰架正在分崩瓦解的年代里，这座冰山的出现更显得意味深长。
At a time when sprawling shelves of ice are disintegrating, this berg seemed to signify more.
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