The thaw could also threaten oil production, which relies on hard-frozen winter ground to move heavy machinery.
Some think the thaw in relations between Warsaw and Moscow has sparked mischief-making.
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Indeed, the thaw may be happening even faster in Pakistan, perhaps because its other concerns terrorism, political uncertainty seem even more pressing.
The Obama administration has sought to reset U.S. relations with Russia, but disagreement over missile defense has threatened the thaw.
But the West is hopeful that the reformists' victory will help the thaw in relations with Iran to continue, even if slowly.
It happened on Llangollen's Castell Dinas Bran - a popular destination for walkers - as the thaw from recent wintery conditions continues.
But the thaw was expected to be gentler in more northern and western areas, where the risk was said to be "low".
In a region with an already awkward balance between America, China, Japan and Russia, the thaw between the Koreas has set everyone scrambling.
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The thaw led to a number of agreements to reduce nuclear tensions, and the "evil empire" disintegrated within two years after they left the White House.
Many people's bins in our street are over-flowing and following the thaw it can only be a matter of time before rats, foxes and other vermin are attracted.
But the thaw finally set in over the course of the last two years as key housing indicators signaled a definite recovery in demand for homes in the US. New home sales crawled their way up to 367K for 2012, the highest since 2009.
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In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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Club officials say the next 48 hours should see the snow around the site thaw and disperse while grass is already appearing through the snow on the pitch as temperatures rise.
Six thousand homes across Northern Ireland are still without running water after pipes burst in the recent thaw.
When relations with the USSR began to thaw, the Digest feared that Americans were overlooking the danger presented by the Soviets.
High-volume pumps have been set up in North Yorkshire as water levels rise after the rapid thaw of snow and further rainfall.
In the meantime, the businesses that make it will either have huge margins on each order to cover the cost of these difficulties, or will be the companies with almost limitless pockets that can survive a long, frozen winter of price wars before the eventual thaw.
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Nevertheless the film has the honesty and raw emotional power to thaw the most frigid heart.
At the height of the Cold War, the win by the pianist who grew up in Texas helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.
The New York Philharmonic this week is traveling to Pyongyang to perform and perhaps help thaw the icy relations between the U.S. and North Korea.
After the explorers accidentally thaw a few surviving Old Ones, a hidden army of Shoggoths emerges from the shadows, and the humans find themselves caught in an alien war.
After numerous attempts, the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department may have found an effective way to thaw the credit markets.
Russian law does allow relatives to get a dead person rehabilitated, to restore their reputation - a practice that was common in the post-Stalin thaw under Nikita Khrushchev, to clear the names of people executed or exiled by the Communist Party as "traitors" or "saboteurs".
In the first signs of a thaw, in 2010, the brothers abandoned a non-competition agreement that prevented them for entering the same businesses.
But Dr Reaney was sceptical that snowmen could have a major impact on the rate of thaw.
Firefighters were called to Holme Upon Spalding Moor where the rapid snow thaw caused localised flooding on Market Weighton Road.
On October 15, YY.com, a Chinese video-based social networking site, filed to list its shares in New York, seeking to thaw the icy conditions.
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