You would expect that the Discovery Channel would get the story straight on global warming and climate change, wouldnât you? Well, it did, overseas, but when bringing its Frozen Planet episode âOn Thin Iceâ to the US, it decides to edit out mention of human-caused global warming. âThe showâs producer told the New York Timesshe didnât want people saying
A team of scientists have set forth from BAS Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and are heading for Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica where they will survey the worldâs largest glacier in an effort to understand how ice is being lost from the glacier and what contribution the loss is likely to
[UPDATED â Dec. 11, 2001 â embedded video restored] A most unusual and amazing phenomenon of Nature, the âbrinicleâ is a descending channel of brine (highly salty water) that resembles a twisting icicle, or perhaps, an underwater, âslow moâ, ice tornado. And, not unlike the latter, it leaves a path of (frozen) death its wake.
