Then there's glacial till, eroded soil churned along by the ice, often forming low elongated hills called drumlins when the ice recedes.

Arctic oil and gas deposits and the opening-up of sea lanes as ice recedes increase the strategic importance of the region.

His expedition will highlight climate change and study the 'teeming' ocean wildlife now threatened as the protective pack ice recedes.

During the summer and autumn, the ribbon seal lives in open water, though some move north as the ice recedes with warmer temperatures.

When the ice recedes or thaws, the valley remains, often littered with small boulders that were transported within the ice.

A few weeks of hobbling, complaining and generally making other people's lives a misery, and the pain recedes.

Pain recedes and my thoughts evaporate.

As time pulls us forward, the shocks of the past are absorbed and the pain recedes.

The waders, primarily short-legged knot feeding on the mudflats, are forced to roost elsewhere until the tide recedes.

When the tide recedes, the rays separate and withdraw to shelters on the reef.

High tide brings in salt water, and when the tide recedes, solar evaporation of the seawater in the soil leads to further increases in salinity.

Visitors have been known to return from a hike to find their cars submerging and themselves stranded until the tide recedes.

When the tide recedes, the harbour turns to mud.