It's just the tip of the iceberg.

that ice sheet became very dynamic and was very easily melted.

Greenland remains. Twenty eight years ago, this is what the polar ice cap the North Polar ice cap looked like at the end of the summer, at the fall equinox.

The World Climate Research Programme has specifically included research on climate and cryosphere, the main purpose of which is to provide a globally integrated approach to the study of the role of the cryosphere in the climate system.

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

It was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age.

If its ice sheet melted completely, sea levels would rise by seven meters meaning that we cannot afford to lose even a small fraction of the ice sheet.

The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period within the current ice age occurring during the last years of the Pleistocene, from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Brown Glacier, Heard Island, had retreated by 50 metres over three years, with the lower slopes of the glacier having lost as much as 11 metres in thickness, while Collins Glacier, King George Island, retreated by some 200 metres between 1987 and 2005.

It was followed by a cooler period in the North Atlantic termed the Little Ice Age.

Geographic features The physiography of Latvia and its neighboring areas was formed, to a large degree, during the Quaternary period and the Pleistocene ice age, when soil and debris were pushed by glaciers into mounds and hills.

Its maximum extension in recent history, marking the advance of the glacier in response to the cooling of the Little Ice Age, was reached not earlier than the late 18th century, and more probably at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the last three decades, its volume has shrunk by roughly three quarters.

The challenge will be to find a way out of this and work towards a mutually acceptable solution to this icy conflict.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

The last glacial period of the current ice age ended about 10,000 years ago.

A polynya is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice.

Late ice age climatic changes caused plant communities and animal populations to change.

The loch is only about 10,000 years old, dating to the end of the last ice age.

Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding the Arctic sea ice cap is melting.

For instance, as the Arctic ice cap melts, less sunlight is reflected.

Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age.

At the start of the Permian, the Earth was still in an Ice Age, which began in the Carboniferous.

Indeed, the ice cap s area has decreased by half since the 1980 s, when summer sea ice still extended over roughly seven million square kilometers, as opposed to less than four million today.

I thought I would start with the logo. What's missing here, of course, is the North Polar ice cap.

AM ... ice skating gait. There isn't all this sort of snake way of walking.

Walt Meier of the United States National Snow and Ice Data Center describes today s ice cap as crushed ice.

Snow accumulation on the upper surface and melting from the lower surface are also important to the mass balance of an ice shelf.

The glacier on Puncak Trikora in the Maoke Mountains disappeared completely some time between 1939 and 1962.

In 2009 Brazil made its first national scientific expedition to the Antarctic ice sheet.

Fishery plans are available for all krill, icefish and toothfish fisheries in the Convention Area.

Indeed, a part of the observed warming is due to less reflection, as snow and ice cover has shrunk.

The Maunder minimum, for example, is believed to have caused the Little Ice Age phenomenon during the Middle Ages.

Formation The lake is a remnant of a larger body of water which existed in this area during an Ice Age.

In March 2012, it was found that the compressibility of water used in ice giant models could be off by one third.

Then 10,000 years ago, exploiting a sudden change in global climate with the end of the last ice age, humans learned to farm.

But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.

Lake Peipus is a remnant of a body of water which existed in this area during an Ice Age.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, forcing glaciers and Arctic ice to retreat.

Okay. We had a team out watching this glacier, and we recorded the biggest calving event that's ever been put on film.

Arctic sea ice cover reached its lowest recorded average level for the month of June ever.

The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas.

Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age.

In September, the sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean melted all the way back to the record low level recorded in September 2007.

Important historical evidence has been discovered in the form of cave drawings by the Sicani, dated from the end of the Pleistocene epoch, around 8000 BC.