1. As we gained speed and the three bears receded into an endless sea of floating ice, I kept my eye on them as long as possible. 2. Both bergs calved from the Ross Ice Shelf, a permanent floating ice sheet. 3. A Rhode Island-size piece of the floating ice fringe along a fast-warming region of Antarctica has disintegrated with extraordinary rapidity, scientists said Tuesday. 4. First, chunks of floating ice are removed from the pool. 5. Floating ice looks as weightless as mist. 6. He also helped gather data about floating ice to provide to Allied convoys bound for the Soviet Union. 7. I certainly intend to worry about huge floating ice chunks. 8. Hundreds of ships, most famously the Titanic, have been sent to the bottom of this region of the North Atlantic after a fatal encounter with floating ice. 9. Ships dock at the pier and unload their cargoes on the floating ice, which is connected to land by a movable bridge. 10. The loss of floating ice does not contribute to rising sea levels, just as melting ice cubes floating in a glass do not cause it to overflow. |