Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area. [More]

Cunard 's Queen Mary 2 has passed its vessel sanitation re-test, some six weeks after suffering a failing score when inspectors found a human hair in the ice machine, dirty water in the pools and chemicals stored near napkins.

A new study suggests some of Antarctica's ice sheet grows from the bottom up, adding a new wrinkle to efforts to predict how the continent's glaciers will respond to climate change. Radar images show that water under the base of the ice sheet refreezes into ice, creating a new bottom layer that accounts for up to half the total thickness of the ice sheet in some locations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone knows that when water freezes, it forms ice. But a lesser known fact is that there is not one, but many different kinds of ice, depending on the way the ice crystals are arranged