14-10-09 Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarcti...

14-09-28 THE promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-na...

14-09-26 Land-ice decay at the end of the last five ice-ages caused global sea-levels to rise at rates of up to 5.5 metres per century, according to a new study. An international team of researchers developed a 500,000-year record of sea-level variability, t...

14-09-05 A new study of three ice cores from Greenland documents the warming of the large ice sheet at the end of the last ice age -- resolving a long-standing paradox over when that warming occurred. Large ice sheets covered North America and northern Europ...

14-08-29 The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge might be a viral phenomenon, but some of official Washington's ethics police are throwing cold water on diplomats and House members taking part in the cause. 尽管冰桶挑战赛已经在全球掀起一股热潮，然而，美国政府道德委员会...

14-08-18 From research stations drifting on ice floes（冰川） to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for almost a century. Now that people are more concerned than ever about what is hap...

14-05-29 A new study has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier than previously thought coming out of the last ice age -- and that shrinkage of the vast ice sheet accelerated during eight distinct episodes, causing rapid s...

14-05-20 An unusually heavy hailstorm in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, has brought residents out onto to the streets to play with the ice it left behind. 一场罕见的大冰雹突降巴西最大城市圣保罗，使广大居民走上街头玩耍冰雹带来的冰雪。 Children came out to...

14-04-17 An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. Researchers from the University of Southampton, the Nation...

14-03-16 冰淇淋既可以作为赢得小联赛的奖励，也可以用来抚慰分手后的悲伤。然而，在美食极客的手中，冰淇淋还可以成为一种美味的乐器。设计师Carla Diana和Emilie Baltz近来发起了一场音乐表演，一群四重奏演奏者聚集在一起，仅用一夸脱香草冰淇淋和一些高科技蛋筒进行表演。 I...