Japan will seek to extract natural gas from seabed deposits of methane hydrate, also known as "burning ice," in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday.

一份新闻报告在星期一称，日本将设法从海床的甲烷水合物库存里开采天然气。“可燃冰”作为甲烷水合物在世界上第一次这样的离岸实验中的称呼也广为人知。

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The report also highlights new evidence that changes in Arctic snow and ice conditions may actually be accelerating the warming process.

这项报告同样也强调了新的证据表明在北极冰雪情况的变化可能会加速全球变暖的进程。

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The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report.

科学家在一份最新报告中称，2000年到现在，坦桑尼亚乞力马扎罗山顶的冰层已经持续快速消退了26%。

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The report also says the two thousand nine ice cover was thin.

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The IPCC report said that the probability of the mass of ice "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high."

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So we have a paper merely claiming that two out of three global temperature stations report the Little Ice Age is over.

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Clark County Director of Aviation Randall Walker was immediately notified and dispatched airport personnel to the campsite, but witnesses report that the blue ice had melted by the time officials arrived leaving only a smelly brown residue.

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Krupnik and Weyapuk (2010) report over 120 Inupiaq terms for sea ice and associated vocabulary from Wales, Alaska, including almost 75 terms for types of sea ice and ice conditions.

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