Still,the National Snow and Ice Data Center says the most recent September measurement was the third lowest since nineteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

When melting snow-crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice, called sleet.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

Clouds with extremely cool water are mixed with man-made ice crystals, such as silver iodide and metaldehyde crystals.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

The two government agencies have been studying Arctic Sea ice from space since nineteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Vermont-based ice cream company Ben and Jerrys named an ice cream flavor after her.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

That study used computers and current ice-level information to predict future ice levels.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

It also has about one hundred thousand glaciers, or slow-moving mountains of ice.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

They could see the snow-covered mountains and huge amounts of blue ice.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

But I have found an easy way to kill the ice-bear.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

About ninety-eight percent of this area is covered in ice.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

"Well,they're easy to eat, they're like bite-size portions which is better than cake or ice cream, so you don't feel like you get as many calories if you eat just one.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

He began to walk on the snow-covered ice.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River,the Green River, the Little Colorado,the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

In nine Olympic Games since ice dancing debuted in 1976, but two golds have gone to Russian, Soviet or Russian-based teams.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Explorer Pen Hadow led a two-and-a-half-month trek earlier this year that revealed Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

On Saturday,Canada broke the record for the biggest margin of victory in Olympic women's ice hockey with an 18-0 trouncing of Slovakia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

The U.S.Men's Ice Hockey Team begins its Vancouver Olympics campaign against Switzerland on the opening day of the tournament - February 16.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The Vancouver Games conclude Sunday with a cross-country skiing race and the men's gold medal ice hockey game between Canada and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

it will release the 3D version of "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" on Blu-ray.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Through the implant process,called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology,or ICE, the researchers have found that Broca's area processes three different language functions in succession within a quarter of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

In their national sport of ice hockey, the Canadian men won a thrilling 3-2 overtime victory for the gold medal over their rivals and neighbors to the south, the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The fast-paced sport of ice hockey is thrilling when there is a tightly-played contest, but that is not what spectators observed in each of the opening women's games contested by Canada and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Richard Milner is working on his next book,which explores the art of Charles R.Knight, the American painter of dinosaurs, ice age mammoths and saber-toothed cats, whose work adorns the walls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Field Museum in Chicago and other institutions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25