Posts Tagged ‘ice melting’

• London polar bear stranded on the Thames

  The Times Online is reporting that a polar bear was found stranded on a block of ice travelling down the Thames in London yesterday. Although the polar bear only was a giant sculpture designed to help promote a new natural …

• The ice melts so fast that scientists had to abandon their polar station

  A group of Russian scientists had to abandon their polar station near Svalbard when the ice their station was standing on started to melt away, three months too early. The polar station was placed on a huge flake of ice …