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Masses of Beautiful Alabaster
Humans have long struggled to describe the grandeur and beauty of icebergs.
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Icebergs Make Some of the Ocean's Loudest and Most Eerie Sounds
Scientists are just learning to decode the sounds of icebergs. By Sarah Laskow
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NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
Sea level rise has been underestimated by up to 28 percent in some areas. By Sarah Emerson.
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Watch 30 Years of Arctic ice shrinkage in chilling NASA timelapse
A new animation from NASA shows the movement of Arctic sea ice, the large mass of frozen water on the Arctic Ocean, in a stunning time-lapse spanning three decades.
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West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize With ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’
"The bottom of the world has drawn increased scrutiny from scientists over the last few years, as West Antarctic ice loss in some places shows signs of becoming “unstoppable.” There’s enough water locked up in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea region alone to raise the global average sea level by four feet, and it’s the fastest-melting spot on the continent." By Eric Roston.
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Glaciers with a Flotilla of 'Ice Sails'
Rare and somewhat esoteric. These are the huge pyramids of ice that stand proud of the surface on some glaciers.
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Musicians Turn a Frozen Lake in Siberia Into a Giant Instrument
Watch a group of Russian percussionists venture out into a frozen Lake Baikal and make music with ice!
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Bulldozer Falls Through Ice
Pro Tip: Don't drive a bulldozer onto thin ice.
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Where winter is cold, dark and beautiful
In Greenland the shortest day of the year can have little more than three hours of sunlight - but the long, dark winter can be a thing of beauty.
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Melting ice in west Antarctica could raise seas by three metres, warns study
Nasa research finds ice in the region has gone into ‘irreversible retreat’ and claims effect is ‘unstoppable’
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Greenland Experiences Sudden Onset of Melt Season
Two maps show Greenland's sudden, rapid meltdown.
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13 Ways to Upgrade Your Ice Cubes
It's nice to play with ice.
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Rosetta Sees Signs of Water Ice on Comet Surface
Patches of water ice likely speckle the surface of Rosetta's comet, according to observations newly released from the European spacecraft. The orbiter spotted 120 bright spots that were at least a few meters in size.
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Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why
The stunning science behind why Greenland is having so many earthquakes.
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Rare Flipped Iceberg
Almost 90% of any given iceberg is below the surface, making iceberg flips extremely rare. While in Antarctica, I was lucky enough to witness an iceberg flip, revealing a strangely translucent, alien-green underside that’s completely free of snow and debris.
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Why Are Some Glaciers Blue?
One of the most amazing sights in Antarctica is its stunning blue ice, rippling like a frozen sea. Patches of blue-hued ice emerge where wind and evaporation have scoured glaciers clean of snow. The translucent, wind-polished surface reflects a stunning turquoise color when the polar sun peeks above the horizon. Antarctica is the only place on Earth with these incredible stretches of blue ice.
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Sending ice to Antarctica
Scientists have come up with a new way of preserving samples of ice from mountain glaciers. They are creating an ice vault in the coldest place on Earth - Antarctica.
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NASA reveals the high tech tools it will send to Jupiter's moon Europa
The space agency has cherry-picked nine special space tools for a new mission to one of Jupiter's moons.
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Inside the Obsessive World of Artisanal Cocktail Ice
There's an all-out ninja battle going on at our finer urban cocktail establishments, and the prize at the center is a beautiful block of ice.
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Hee Yong Park: ice and mixed climbing on the Argentiere Glacier
On February 6-7, 2015, he won the second to last World Cup climbing stage in Champagny-en-Vanoise (French Alps).
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