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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- Federal authorities are trying to figure out if a huge chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a Massachusetts house fell from an aircraft.
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Motorists slid off roads Sunday as a wind-blown brew of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England.
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Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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Another wintry blast was forecast Friday for the nation's midsection, where hundreds of thousands are still in the dark after a deadly ice storm brought down power lines, snapped trees and coated roads.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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Stargazers were able to catch a fleeting glimpse of a total eclipse of the moon in the early hours today. The clouds cleared to allow a rusty ball to be seen, despite bad weather, between 3.23am and 4.44am.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--The people, places and things we encounter in a lifetime are much like snowflakes: Some land in shade and linger with us all winter. Others, nearly identical, hit sunny asphalt and vanish as quickly as they came.
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A capsule carrying samples of solar wind was supposed to be plucked out of midair by a helicopter, but its chutes apparently malfunctioned. Amit Asaravala reports from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--This is a plow. And this is frozen slush. Any questions?   In the first winter storm of any consequence, this city failed the street-clearing test badly.
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A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.
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An island of ice the size of Manhattan has drifted into a remote channel and is now jammed by pack ice.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates fell victim to the sheer ice that covered much of the Washington area last night, fracturing his right arm after taking a hard spill outside his District home.
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Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.
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Unprecedented balmy temperatures at the start of Austria's winter have melted away a towering Christmas tree of ice a week after it went on display.Comment
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PINE FALLS, Manitoba -- Here on the edge of the silent and frozen northern tier of the Earth, the fate of the world's climate is buried beneath the snow and locked in the still limbs of aspen trees.
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WASHINGTON - Arctic sea ice melted to its lowest level ever, continuing a trend spurred by human-caused global warming, scientists said yesterday.
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Very long icicles Deep ice cores from Antarctica reveal there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any time in the last 800,000 years.â¦