ice-cap

Vanaheim, long before those times I have memories (living memories) of earlier drifts, when, like thistledown before the breeze, we drifted south before the face of the descending polar ice-cap.

Chapter 21 2010

I must stand with the vast majority of climate scientists and their stolid progress through the data -- and with the Inuit on the front lines, currently watching the undeniable shrinking of the Arctic ice-cap, and seeing robins for the first time.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

Mammoth icebergs are rendered with a palette knife, the polar weather is in gray washes, and drips and drops may—or may not—indicate ice-cap melting.

An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias Sidney Lawrence 2011

Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.

'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation' 2009

The habitable planet, from ice-cap to ice-cap, will be inhabited.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

A full-length trail marathon across the ice-cap and through Arctic desert and frozen tundra always promised to be tough ? and the Polar Circle marathon didn't disappoint.

Running the Polar Circle marathon Nick Mead 2010

Greenland is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with 56,450 people in 840,000 square miles although most of it is uninhabitable ice-cap ? so, like any town here, you only have to wander a few minutes in one direction to find yourself in pristine wilderness.

Running the Polar Circle marathon Nick Mead 2010

Think of the polar bear on a shrinking ice-cap or the boy with his hand up to the tank in Tiananmen Square.

Sarah Bowman: Art Worth Your Family's Time: December 2010 Sarah Bowman 2010

It was formerly supposed that the immense accumulation of snow near the South Pole produced an ice-cap several miles in thickness which, creeping outward all round, terminated in the sea in vast ice-cliffs, such as those of Ross's Great Barrier, whence the huge flat-topped ice-islands broke off and floated away.

Perspective of Antarctica in 1911 2009