ice-floe

Merely to be able to run a few yards on an ice-floe appeared to us an event of importance, and we rejoiced no less at the prospect of giving our dogs a good meal of seal's flesh, while we ourselves would have no objection to a little change of diet.

The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

In 1934 the crewmen of the ice-breaker Chelyuskin were adrift on an ice-floe after the ship went down in the Sea of Chukotsk.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN.

Archive 2009-09-05 2009

There are various examples of Inuit peoples having difficulty coping with thinning ice, retreating ice-floe edges, and increasing storm frequency during the last decade [14].

Sea-level rise and coastal stability in the Arctic 2009

In 1934 the crewmen of the ice-breaker Chelyuskin were adrift on an ice-floe after the ship went down in the Sea of Chukotsk.

Gothic Stalinist Soviet Skyscrapers 2007

Data from ice-floe measurements show a slight air temperature increase with statistically significant warming in May and June between 1961 and 1990.

Arctic ocean, climate and infrastructure 2009

The terrorists shrank the ice-floe housing the skidoo shed so much, that the whole thing overturned and plunged to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.

The Arctic is disappearing due to terrorism 2007

If he'd taken that photograph of the bears they would have been a mile safe inland before he opened up with ice-floe melting flame-throwers.

The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo. Ann Althouse 2007

When outsiders question whether anyone would be so cynical, they are reminded of that now-famous photograph of a polar bear which appears to be teetering precariously on an Arctic ice-floe, melting faster than ice-cream, in the depths of winter.

Drudge Denies Polar Bears Threatened by Global Warming 2007

In her loose nutria coat, seal toque, virginal cheeks unmarked by lines of village jealousies, she was as out of place on this dreary hillside as a scarlet tanager on an ice-floe.

Main Street 2004