The Washington Post recently featured a front page article about melting ice in Antarctica.
The flow in the Mekong comes mainly from rainfall and some snow melt, not melting ice.
In the kitchen, the melting ice of the refrigerator had formed a large pool on the floor.
They've seen plenty of action in and around the arctic, melting ice, more rain and disappearing glaciers.
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The fate of polar bears weighs on our collective conscience more than pandas because of melting ice caps.
When we think about climate change, we are no longer thinking about polar bears stranded on melting ice caps.
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Melting ice, especially in Greenland and the Arctic, is also thought to contribute to global warming, Zwally said.
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The Arctic is especially prone to global warming because of the dangers of the so-called "feedback loop" caused by melting ice.
Warmer temperatures are already melting ice caps, leading to rising sea levels.
Some climate change naysayers point to Antarctic ice on the rise, as if that makes up for melting ice in the Arctic Circle.
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He spent an hour staring at the melting ice that dripped from his refrigerator, and then went next door to complain to his neighbor.
More recently, it has gained prominence amid expectations that melting ice will clear the way for more resource development and free up trade routes.
Such a rise would probably lead to fast-melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, drought, disease and collapsing agriculture in poor countries, and mass migration.
Dr Marsden reckons the technique might even improve understanding of how water from melting ice caps will affect ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream.
But this is now changing, with oil firms increasingly heading north, nudged by high oil prices, better technology, a dearth of easier opportunities and melting ice.
Melting ice in the Arctic will have implications for the rest of the world in terms of its impact on global sea level, atmospheric and oceanic circulation.
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And Shell plausibly argues that Alaska's melting ice will make its operations more difficult to plan by forcing it to prepare for a wider range of conditions.
The fear is that melting ice, along with increased snow and rain, could reduce the density and salinity of the top layers of the sea, making them more buoyant.
Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.
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That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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They claim they are losing shoreline because of melting ice and rising oceans, that floods and storms are more severe, causing greater damage, and that controlling smog is getting more difficult.
They concluded there was a one-in-20 chance that the melting ice would drive up sea levels by more than 84cm, essentially saying there is a 95% chance it would not go above this figure.
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But, then you turn on the news and hear reports of the the horrific attacks on innocent people in Mumbai, our crashing economy, melting ice caps, and all of that imagined baby bliss fades away.
Around midday Friday, the sturdy and ice-strengthened science research vessel, the "Grigory Mikheev, " will depart Kangerlussuaq in Greenland bound for Disko Bay, a location on the west coast that provides some of the starkest examples of the island's melting ice caps.
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
To assess the contribution from melting ice sheets, scientists try to measure "mass balance, " which is the difference between the annual snow that falls on the permanent ice sheets each year, and the total mass of ice that melts or breaks off the sheets.
China has been making strenuous actions to buy mines of RE ore around the world, to maintain its dominance of the global markets, and I wonder whether this will extend to Greenland, where the melting ice-sheet is likely to ease access to the rich veins of REs and other elements that the world needs to maintain its technologies and energy supplies.
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Discovery of volcanic ice flows and melting of ice on the surface of Europa that support the premise of liquid oceans underneath.
First we were accused of causing melting polar ice caps, rising oceans and sweaty polar bears.
However, scientists do not fully understand the relationship between air and sea temperature, and the melting of ice.
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