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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by declining snow and ice cover as a result of global warming, a UN report has warned.
The world's largest beverage maker on Friday kicked off the holiday weekend by creating a 10-ton ice cream float to break a world record the company set nearly a decade ago.
A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago.
Ice caves are also called glacial caves, as that is where most of them have been found. The images on this page were taken by Jason Gulley, a glaciologist studying the hydrology of glacial caves, in Alaska and Nepal. [via reddit]
In a story that caught the attention of only the more astute climate science journalists a few weeks ago, one of the more experienced oceanographers of our time, Peter Wadhams, reported that the Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than we thought. How much faster? So fast that the rate made the story seem too alarmist to take seriously.
But in a new study published Tuesday, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research conclude that the shrinking summertime Arctic pack ice is about 30 years ahead of the climate model projections.
Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes.
Winter Arctic sea ice this year was the second smallest area on record in a sign of greenhouse warming, U.S. climate scientists said on Wednesday.
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EARTH - It appears that despite all the worry and debate, global warming has once and for all been defeated by the use of thinner jackets. Millions have feared the coming planet-wide disasters that global warming could set in motion, but now it seems the issue is moot thanks to the discovery of thinner coats by Dr. Tanner Lewis of St. Louis, MO.
The Ninja interviews Will Ferrell and Jon Heder of Blades of Glory. The Ninja is then introduced to ice skating by Scott Hamilton.
Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter storms and heavier rainfall to western Europe, scientists warn today.
Really amazing crystal clear pictures of Antarctica up close. Lots of penguins, lots of ice, beautiful pictures!
Having trouble getting pregnant? Maybe you're not eating enough ice cream, say researchers who found that a low-fat dairy diet can cause infertility, by preventing ovulation.
A 16-year-old Cloquet, Minn., boy told police it was so funny to see a a 90-year-old nursing home resident "freaking out" that he returned to do it again. A Cloquet, Minn., teenager told police that he found it so funny when he dumped a pitcher of ice water on a 90-year-old nursing home resident in June that he returned and did it twice
A Bucks County family was abruptly awakened after a large piece of icy debris crashed through the roof of their home.
In the wake of the last two Olympic Winter Games, American interest in the long-obscure sport of luge has warmed considerably.
The long-term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of metres, has been called into question with the discovery of fast-moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base. The discovery raises fresh questions about the speed at which sea levels might rise
Sliding cars and jackknifed trucks snarled highway traffic, and flights were grounded Tuesday as a storm blew out of the Midwest with a threat of up to 2 feet of blowing, drifting snow.
A blast of snow, gusty winds and plunging temperatures in the Midwest created headaches for travelers Tuesday with canceled flights and slick, slushy roads.
Two brothers, ages 8 and 12, died Sunday after the younger boy fell through a sheet of ice covering a pond and his brother tried to rescue him.
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BALTIMORE -- Federal agents taking a break from an unrelated assignment yesterday arrested 24 illegal aliens at a Fells Point 7-Eleven after the men attempted to solicit "underground" employment from the agents.
A storm blamed for at least 39 deaths in six states spread into the Northeast on Monday, coating trees, power lines and roads with a shell of ice up to a half-inch thick and knocking out power to more than half a million homes and businesses.
Deep beneath the many hundreds of metres of ice that envelope the continent of Antarctica lies a frozen landscape which has been cut off from the rest of the living biosphere for tens of millions of years. In 2007 - International Polar Year - scientists hope to shed some light on the mysteries of this lost world.
The fat and calories in ice cream have many of us doing without the double dips, but scientists are looking to a little-known fish to pull your diet out of the deep freeze.You may have seen it on store shelves: new low-fat ice cream with all the flavor of the real stuff.









