Glacier

27 Aug 2011

This summer, 72 students from around the world were selected to take part in an Arctic expedition with a team of renowned scientists, historians, artists, explorers, educators, leaders,...

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Icebergs

8 Mar 2010

Tip of the iceberg

Icebergs can be very big. But what we see above water is only about 10 per cent of their total size. This is the origin of the expression 'the tip of the iceberg...

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MacLehose Trail gets fund-raisers set for New Year ascent of Kilimanjaro

5 Feb 2010

Some of us will be eating law bak goh (turnip cake) and counting lai see during the Lunar New Year. Photographer Sean Lee Davies (left) will be a little more constructive, leading a small group...

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Glaciers shrinking fast, warns scientist

26 Dec 2007

Ice melting at double the speed, survey finds

Chinese glaciers are melting at almost twice the rate previously estimated, the latest national glacial survey has found.

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Thaw points

20 May 2007

It takes hours behind the wheel from Iceland's Reykjavik airport, crossing a craggy moon landscape of lava fields and mountains in black rainstorm conditions to reach artist Roni Horn. There,...

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Overstated, overbearing and over the top

21 Nov 1993

THERE is a vast and vacuous section of American society to whom unintelligible hype is a way of communication. It began with calling anything that looked different from a Big Mac amazing.

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