Ice
New warning on Arctic ice melt
April 08, 2011Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer ice will probably be gone within this decade. The original prediction, made in 2007, gained Wieslaw Maslowski's team a deal of criticism from some of...
Freezing rain shuts Moscow's airport and cuts power
December 27, 2010Freezing rain has badly disrupted air traffic at Moscow's airports and left more than 400,000 people in and around Russia's capital without electricity. Rain that immediately turned into ice on the ground caused power failures, shutting Domodedovo...
Cargo and passenger ships with thousands on board trapped by ice in the Baltic Sea
March 05, 2010A number of ships, including ferries with more than 1,000 passengers on board, have become stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea, BBC reports. The ferries are stranded in the waters between Stockholm and the Aland Islands, while cargo boats are stuck in the...
Traffic in central Chisinau diverted
November 27, 2008The traffic in downtown Chisinau will be diverted between November 27 and 28 in connection with the Summit of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Government of the Central European Initiative Member States held in Chisinau. Parking in the center...
- December 10, 2007
Several Midwestern U.S. states were under ice storm warnings Monday following a slick, accident-filled weekend. Ice warnings were posted in Missouri and Oklahoma with the National Weather Service in Tulsa, Okla., calling for as much as half an inch...
- September 17, 2007
European Space Agency satellites show sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level in 30 years. Researchers say the ice melt may open the Northwest Passage, which has historically been impassable by boat. "The reduction in just one...