The sea ice expanded during Southern Hemisphere autumn and winter in response to the development of a fresh, cool surface water layer, which floated on the denser, warmer salty sea water below.

BBC: Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion

The UNESCO Chair in The Development of a Sustainable Geoenvironment contributes to stalling and reversing the contamination and degradation of terrestrial systems and their surface and groundwater systems.

UNESCO: Chairs and UNITWIN Networks

The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.

CNN: The shield of Ra: Could solar reflection save the planet?

For Microsoft, encouraging the development of Windows 8-style apps has a broader imperative than just propping up the Surface RT (or Windows RT in general).

ENGADGET: Switched On: Tablets and tradeoffs