And get ready, Nymex, ICE will be introducing gasoline and heating oil contracts through its electronic trading network as of Friday.

FORBES: Talk About Texas Tea

With practice areas for figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, snowboarding and speed skating, among others, this network serves as the main East Coast training center for winter-sports Olympians.

WSJ: Defrost Your Inner Olympian

Its small electronic-distribution system has allowed upstarts like the Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (nyse: ICE - news - people ), an electronic energy-trading network, to whittle away at Nymex's market dominance in the sector.

FORBES: Merc Oils Golden Engines

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).

BBC: Satellite images reveal the changes in volume of water

The programme aims to maintain a network of at least 3, 000 Argo floats, over all ocean areas without ice-cover, to study ocean variability in the long term.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

Among the network's program offerings are hit series such as American Pickers, Ax Men, The Universe, Ice Road Truckers, Chasing Mummies, Top Shot and Pawn Stars, as well as acclaimed specials including America the Story of Us, WWII in HD, 102 Minutes That Changed America, Moonshot and Life After People.

ENGADGET: n3D presents History Channel's The Universe in 3D on July 30