The images breathe life into an ice world that maybe, just maybe, we can preserve if we get onto emergency footing.
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Like the World Cup of the ice-sculpting world, the competition attracts artists from across the globe.
The city is also home to food theme parks such as Gyoza Stadium and Ice Cream World, vending machines filled with canned coffee drinks, and probably more food fads than anywhere else in the world (today its pancakes, tomorrow it might be cod roe).
For climatologists who are trying to study how Antarctica's ice sheets might respond to a warming world, the ice shelf here is a perfect place.
The World Ice Arts Championships begin in Fairbanks, Alaska on 26 February this year.
World ice hockey chief Rene Fasel said the crash in Yaroslavl was "the darkest day in the history of our sport".
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
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.
The year also saw Arctic sea ice hit a record low in more than 30 years of satellite observations and studies that found the world's major ice sheets have been shrinking at an increasing rate.
He used to be a competitive ice skater and toured the world performing in shows.
Shen and Zhao were also newlyweds after Zhao proposed to Shen on the ice following a stunning 2007 World Championship performance in Tokyo.
Meanwhile a country such as Panama would prefer a cooler world in which ice continues to seal off the North-West Passage and to prevent competition with its canal.
From 3:30 pm to 6 pm, the Prenestina Philharmonic orchestra will play some of the most famous pieces by Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Gounod to accompany a variety of performances, including by world-champion ice skaters Alessandro Spigai and Anna Remondini (on roller-skates), stilt-walkers and traditional dancers.
At a conference in Ukraine's Black Sea resort of Yalta, International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the world economy remained stuck "between the ice of recession and the fire of inflation, " and added that while the world financial market crisis was largely over, its consequences would be felt for some time to come.
European explorers spent centuries searching for a passage through the ice at the top of the world.
Launched in 1963, Harbin's festival is now ranked as one of the four largest ice and snow carnivals in the world and attracts close on a million visitors.
Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.
However, he added, many months of work lie ahead, and it will be some time before scientists are ready to announce to the world what lies beneath the ice.
From late December, visitors flock to this city in Heilongjiang Province in the north-east of China to experience one of the finest ice and snow festivals anywhere in the world.
But for those who stay in the Argentine capital, one of the most pleasurable ways to manage the intense temperatures is to indulge in a giant scoop (or three) of world-famous Argentine helado (ice cream).
While it's exciting to work beside world-class scientists such as ice-sheet climatologist Jason Box, glaciologist Alun Hubbard and geophysicist Richard Bates, it's equally disheartening to be here bearing witness to the catastrophic events they record.
In 60 years the ice caps could melt and one fifth of the world's land will go under water.
Since 1850 the world has been emerging from the Little Ice Age.
Germany is the traditional home of Eiswein but producers in Canada, such as Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs and Mission Hill, have created an important export market and the country now makes more ice-wine than any other nation in the world.
Stunning, intricate creations by world-class carvers include those from the ice city of Harbin, in China.
The latest, launched on September 3rd, features Katarina Witt, East Germany's former Olympic ice-skating champion and Henry Maske, a boxing world champion.
The uses and benefits of ice as a resource eventually came to be known all over the world.
The International Ice Hockey Federation has cancelled this month's women's world championship, due to be held in Beijing.
The ceremonial faceoff saw former world boxing champions Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute approach center ice from opposite directions.
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