Warmer conditions on the tundra trigger a cascade of change, including converting its lush but short green carpet into a taller shag, since warmer soils and deeper thaw enable taller, woody plants to grow and thrive on the tundra.
His personal theory is that the warm temperatures in the past few days are causing a violent and rapid thaw underground.
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.
As the Earth warms, researchers believe the Arctic ice will thaw and become thinner.
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Forecasters are warning of serious flooding across many parts of the UK as rising temperatures cause snow to thaw and rain moves in.
The most anyone can expect is that relations may emerge from the deep freeze - but it's bound to be a long haul before they can thaw and become warm.
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.
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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Unlike chess-players, though, all the participants can win in this game, it is hoped, if they agree on a common aim: peace between Turkey and Armenia, which would help to thaw the frozen conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the (mainly Armenian) territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The limestone used to build the 3rd century structure is being eroded by the elements and suffers particularly from frost-thaw - when water enters the stone then freezes and melts.
Obama had his first face-to-face with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and they seemed to thaw those recently icy relations.
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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Any time weather is damp and warm from spring thaw to the last gasp of summer mold spores can be circulating in the trillions.
Mary Dhonau, from Worcester, who is a director of the association, said it would mean there would be less surface water on roads and pavements after a thaw.
Nevertheless the film has the honesty and raw emotional power to thaw the most frigid heart.
High-volume pumps have been set up in North Yorkshire as water levels rise after the rapid thaw of snow and further rainfall.
And I have since updated my baby math: If I don't get pregnant on my own within the next year or so, I plan to thaw my eggs and hopefully give birth to my first child at 44 and maybe a second by 46.
He said "there was no thaw in sight" and that although roads "were slowly being opened up" people were still in a "terrible situation".
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Some think the thaw in relations between Warsaw and Moscow has sparked mischief-making.
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Neither Scudamore, or any reprehensive from England's top division, currently sit on the 2018 board and Kenyon is keen to see relations thaw in order to help the bid progress.
Last weekend's snow had continued to cause travel disruption in north and mid Wales as freezing temperatures prevented a thaw.
But countries that are playing multi-alignment don't have to thaw domestically -- witness Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan.
If that freeze does not thaw, the rest of America, and even economically emerging nations abroad, will pass them by.
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This could very well lead to major societal shifts and, eventually, political ones, which could help thaw U.S.-Cuba relations.
After numerous attempts, the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department may have found an effective way to thaw the credit markets.
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.
Thein Sein, president since March and the man chiefly responsible for initiating Myanmar's thaw, got his reward at the annual bash in Indonesia of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
But the thaw was expected to be gentler in more northern and western areas, where the risk was said to be "low".
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