The Arctic sea ice area is expected to continue decreasing until September.
And in February 2009 it was discovered that scientists had previously been underestimating the re-growth of Arctic sea ice by an area larger than the state of California (twice as large as New Zealand).
Satellites have long been used to track ice extent (area), but calculating the thickness of the marine floes requires the overflying spacecraft to gauge the difference between the top of the ice surface and the top of the water - a relatively simple calculation then gives the overall volume.
Every summer an extra area of ice six times the size of California has been disappearing.
In addition to the scores of restaurants that line the main thoroughfare, ranging from Iraqi food to flavoured tobacco shisha to Haagen Daaz ice cream, the area is a functioning market.
The diphtheria serum Nome's doctor had requested was not delivered, and as winter ice set in, the area was cut off from the rest of the world.
The study revealed a complex network of ponds and rivers, the largest of which occurred under the Whillans ice stream and covered an area of 500 sq km (190 sq miles).
However, although the sea ice is shrinking -- covering less total area as well as becoming thinner -- the Arctic is still a world ruled by ice, a lesson well learned when the Polar Pioneer encountered heavy pack ice between Svalbard and the eastern coast of Greenland, forcing the captain to divert the boat and drop speed to just a few knots.
In the Bristol area, snow and ice has badly affected roads and public transport.
Get a couple scoops of ice cream from one of the area vendors and watch the fireworks display.
The immediate diagnosis from the Blues was that the Wales centre was taken off as a precaution and was later seen holding an ice-pack on the affected area.
Paul Hawker, station manager at Buxton fire station, said they believed both cars had lost control on the same area of snow or ice minutes after each other.
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If you live in an area at risk of winter ice storms and blizzards, you need to be prepared for a loss of power.
The only employers he knows of in the area are a kiln and an ice factory, he says.
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The Met Office said ice was the main problem for the Strathclyde area.
Vostok Station was set up by the Russians in 1956, and their seismic soundings soon suggested there was an area of liquid underneath all the ice.
Then on Saturday a mixture of ice and snow is expected along that eastern area as well as parts of Wales and England, with the heaviest snow due on higher ground such as the Cotswolds and the Chiltern Hills.
Other finds suggest people have used the area since the end of the last Ice Age, about 12, 000 years ago.
The shop is open between November and March, the only time when the ice is thin enough for ships to reach the area.
Compared to September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, this represents a 45 percent reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice.
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The Millers were able to find a suitable storefront for their own business selling homemade ice pops, which began four years ago at area farmers' markets and opened at 64 Main in 2010.
To the casual reader, the shrinking area of white seemed to signify disappearing ice, so the graphic may have given a totally misleading impression that Greenland had become ice-free - even where the ice is 3km thick.
One of the unsuccessful plaintiffs is Dan S. Collins, who owned four ice-cream shops in the Baton Rouge, La. area with an investor group.
As summer ice in the Arctic has declined in recent years, the area has become the subject of intense interest from oil and gas companies.
Against this idea, is the fact that, so far, no post-ice age evidence of human presence has been found in the area before 7, 000 years ago.
For the past three years, the vast cap of shining-white ice covering the Arctic has melted away in summer to an area that would have been unbelievable just a decade ago.
When the truck is stopped, the driver turns on an air handler that circulates coolant around the ice and blows cold air from the unit into the bunk area of the cab.
The forecast for past several days has been terrible with warnings and advisories for gusting winds, heavy rain and ice and several inches of snow slated to blow into the Philadelphia area.
Mr. O'CONNOR: Now the trick is--one of the many tricks is to make sure that the ice barrier that is created is at sufficient distance from the heated area so as not to counteract each other.
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