First he tried pulling up alongside icebergs and wielding chainsaws lubricated with vegetable oil.
Icebergs originate from ice sheets, which form on land from millions of years of snowfall.
The vast, blue-tinted icebergs that drift here are best viewed from the prow of a Zodiac inflatable boat.
Icebergs may be free, but they are a long way from the customers.
We also kept things cool with a remarkable plan to transform frozen construction sites into event-hosting urban icebergs.
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But these giant breakaway icebergs may in fact be signaling the continent's meltdown.
But unusually high tides in January 1912 meant the icebergs didn't get stuck.
Some spend the summer months surviving on large tabular icebergs off the coast.
Only 2.5% of the world's water is fresh and of that, 99% is frozen in icebergs or hidden deep underground.
Shaped like domes, jellyfish, spaceships and icebergs, few of these notions of futuristic dwellings will ever go beyond the design stage.
Situated in a fjord, the hotel offers the austere beauty of Greenland right at your fingertips: icebergs, snow and sunny vistas.
The stunning landscape is filled with frozen glaciers, icebergs and ice floes.
"One of the benefits of global warming is there hasn't been as many icebergs in the North Atlantic these days, " Palmer said.
We were sailing among icebergs in waters with truly no charted depths.
It's by studying the dynamics of the icebergs in the rings that scientists hope to understand how the whole Solar System formed.
They skirt Antarctica and dreaded icebergs to New Zealand, before setting off to round the notoriously dangerous Cape Horn enroute to Brazil.
Huge tabular icebergs, frosty slopes dotted with adorable gentoo and chinstrap penguins.
As milk-carton-size icebergs bobbed around me, I told myself this was how major leaguers make it through a 162-game season in 181 days.
This is important because, thanks to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, it is now the job of the Treasury secretary to spot financial icebergs.
Global warming has been effectively marketed by doom-speakers because it provides really exciting visual impressions: icebergs calving, polar bears exhausted from swimming, and such.
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Satellite images have revealed that three massive icebergs have been calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea on the Antarctic coast.
We spent hours watching seals and whales (alas, no bears or walruses), visited bird cliffs, climbed icebergs and learned how to build an igloo.
The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.
Because who needs Palm Springs when you can shrinkwrap yourself in Gore Tex and stare at icebergs as big as New York City?
With the loss of these three icebergs, the front of the Ronne Ice Shelf returns to about the same position it occupied in the 1950s.
The motions of the icebergs, among the biggest seen to be formed in Antarctica, are monitored by the United States National Ice Center based in Maryland.
The water is afloat with glassy splinters, hardly bigger than an ice cube, ranging up to colossal tabular icebergs, some the size of several football pitches.
With these shallow-draft boats, known as Zodiacs, you can visit penguin rookeries, scientific research stations and historic sites, and also go on "Zodiac cruises" through fields of beautiful icebergs.
Polar bears are hunted by humans on both the mainlands of Greenland and Canada so the icebergs may enable the bears to remain safe from human hunting.
Besides tracking pollution, watching volcanoes and measuring icebergs, they are following fish around, monitoring changing temperatures in different layers of seawater and mapping the abundance of algae.
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