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But like a melting ice cube, the bank's franchise value would rapidly shrink as depositors, counterparties and staff all left.

The rate of melting ice at the North and South Poles - which totals 382 billion tons of ice a year - is counteracting the 'slimming' effect.

But like a melting ice cube, the bank's franchise value would rapidly shrink as depositors, counter parties and staff all left.

Some of these gullies are thought to have formed by flowing water or melting ice, but others may just be the result of landslides.

Greenland is the focus of many researchers trying to determine how much its melting ice may raise sea levels.

He spent an hour staring at the melting ice that dripped from his refrigerator, and then went next door to complain to his neighbor.

When a comet gets close to the sun, melting ice releases pieces of dust, most no larger than grains of sand.

Perhaps the greatest geological hazards during climate change will be the result of melting ice sheets.

The roof of the pavilion is like a big mountain stone, the bottom a melting ice, and the middle the dropping rain.

It is usually not passable, even in sum-mer, because of ice. But melting ice makes it easier for ships to go through the Arctic.

Melting ice in Greenland freshens the seas near the Arctic and contributes to rising sea levels around the world.

Liquid water cannot exist on the surface because the thin atmosphere will cause melting ice to evaporate directly into water vapour.

Melting ice has opened up the fabled Northwest Passage, which runs through an archipelago of islands in northern Canada.

Melting ice masses change the pressures on the underlying earth, which can lead to earthquakes and tsunamis, but that's just the beginning.

He voted against the McCain-Lieberman bill in 2005, but changed his mind after visiting Greenland to view the melting ice cap.

Changes in the flow of rivers, storms, melting ice and many other hazards will cause difficulties, too.

As the melting ice allows access to the Arctic, Russia will become richer still in fossil fuels. For many, though, the prospects are grim.

A combination of high commodity prices, proactive governments, technological progress and melting ice will help bring these to market.

Not long after this, warming climate and melting ice raised sea levels sharply so that the land-bridge to Asia flooded once again.

Melting ice can help unlock ancient secrets, but warming temperatures could imperil many more historic sites.

It seems completely crazy that the melting ice may spur a whole new oil rush there in the Arctic.

You've probably heard about the global warming song and dance : rising temperatures, melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

Analysts say the melting ice could open up new, shorter, shipping routes between Russia and Norway and Asia.

In the kitchen, the melting ice of the refrigerator had formed a large pool on the floor.

(Para. 4) melting ice caps, flooded coastlines, disturbed climate, dried up plains and, ultimately, empty bread baskets.

Food supplies for polar bears are being affected by rising temperatures and melting ice.

And all the way along the glacier we saw these big pools of melting ice.

The melting ice also has implications for the global energy market.

Our feet slumped repeatedly through the melting ice.

Our feet slump repeatedly through the melting ice.

A rush to explore the Arctic was triggered by the region's melting ice.

You can obtain safe water from undamaged water heaters or by melting ice cubes.

In fact there is already proof that controlling environmental pollution adversely affects the melting ice and snow!

The melting ice keeps the same temperature while melting.

Explanation: These bright rims and flowing shapes suggest to some melting ice cream on a cosmic scale.

Annual discharge from melting ice into the Arctic Ocean rose about 10 percent, or 460 cubic kilometers.

June Fifth is when all of us should give serious thought to melting ice.

The melting ice, he says, may be his fault.

Melting ice erodes the soil around them.

Melting ice may also allow for mineral extraction in areas such as Canada and Russia, and drilling for oil in the Arctic.

The study also showed that glacial lakes - fed by runoff from melting ice masses - had expanded in size.

You can obtain safe water by melting ice cubes.

Well, details and titles aside you can't argue with melting ice caps, can you?

This is true whether we are speaking of melting ice caps in one part of the world or rising unemployment in another.

Melting ice may add water to the river.

Polar bears are in danger, numbers dwindling in the Arctic because of melting ice.

In view of the superiority of direct current melting ice, it has been more and more attractive.

Melting ice caused by a volcanic eruption at Eyjafjalla Glacier in southern Iceland April 14, 2010.

Argument exists over whether slowdowns are primarily wind-driven, or could be caused by an influx of fresh water from melting ice sheets.

It is this melting ice that is raising sea levels much faster than had been expected.

Every year, thousands of cubic kilometres (km3) of fresh water fall as rain or snow or come from melting ice.

Depolarization, Scattering, and Attenuation of Circularly Polarized Radio Waves by Spherically Asymmetric Melting Ice Particles

How rising temperatures and melting ice have affected the habitats of five species of the swimming birds

Application of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Conductive Concrete for Melting Ice and Snow on Road Surface

heavy enough to shatter the melting ice

You love me like the melting ice creams

The Use Vapour-Melting Ice Technology in the Project of Rubber Dam in Highly Cold Areas

Tackling Salt Melting Ice on Road by Drainage and Diversion in Underground

Melting Ice Caps Could Spell Disaster for Coastal Cities

Catlin Arctic trek to reveal true extent of melting ice caps (20 pictures)

Drawing lines in melting ice

Melting ice could mean more toxic chemcials in the nvironment. Corbis