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A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured.
So here's the challenge: be the first person to ever trek to the South Pole, North Pole and top of Mount Everest in one year. It's not so much the "first-ever" label that Eric Larsen is after, but attention for his favorite cause: saving the ice.
A packaged ice company has agreed to pay a $9 million criminal fine for allegedly conspiring with a competitor to divide up the ice market in the Detroit area and southeastern Michigan.
Scientists said NASA's moon-smashing mission produced enough data on Friday to address questions about lunar water ice — but the crash didn't come close to meeting public expectations as a cosmic fireworks show.
Trampling likely killed 131 mostly young walruses forced onto the northwest coast of Alaska by a loss of sea ice, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted water ice in several impact craters midway between the north pole and equator — the first time ice so close to the surface has been discovered so far south on the red planet.
Up to 200 dead walruses have been spotted on the shore of Chukchi Sea on Alaska's northwest coast.
The summer melt of Arctic sea ice wasn't quite as bad this year as the last two years. But it still ranked as the third biggest melt on record.
Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change.
The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
New NASA satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is more than just shrinking in area, it is dramatically thinning.
An environmental group plans to sue the federal government to force a decision on additional protections for Arctic seals.
Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.
Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world's polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming.
The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years. A new analysis of changing conditions in the region, using complex computer models of weather and climate, says conditions that had been forecast by the end of the century could occur much sooner.
Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.
Democrats may want to start thinking about a bailout for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose political stock has slipped amid the financial meltdown.
Officials along Lake Erie are weighing whether to implement a system that would warn anglers to stay off unsafe ice, something that was not in place last month when 130 fishermen were stranded on an ice floe.
Peter Muse's tiny New Hampshire house has a fireplace, bathroom, 4-burner stove and outdoor hot tub.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 24 Hispanics at a convenience store in Baltimore two years ago after their supervisor told them to "bring more bodies" because they were behind their annual quota of 1,000 arrests per team, according to an ICE report released Wednesday.
As a 31-year-old cancer survivor myself, may I ask, how is your health? — Marjorie Margel, Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Mexican teen pleads guilty to killing U.S. Border Patrol agentA Mexican teenager pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent last summer while attempting to rob him of government property in a remote area east of San Diego, according to a plea agreement announced today.
Citizens before illegal immigrantsSome proposals floating around Beacon Hill would actually put illegal immigrants ahead of citizens from other states.
Agenda in 90 days-Increasing funding for bilingual education, DL's,tuition banning local and state police from enforcing federal immigration lawsThey are NUTS. BOSTON - Increasing funding for bilingual education, providing driver's licenses and in-state tuition rates for all immigrants, as well as banning local and state police from enforcing federal immigration laws and creating a refundable state tax credit for natural …
Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.
Special Pleaders Demand Coverage of Illegal Aliens, While Mexico's Health Care System Is a WreckThe demand that illegal immigrants be eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits under the health care reform measures now before Congress offers an opportunity to examine the deep flaws in Mexico's own health care system.
Immigration and Crime: New Studies Examine Crime among Immigrants, Local Enforcement EffortsThe findings of the report, "Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue," show that recent government data, some of which has not been examined before, indicates that immigrants have relatively high rates of criminality.
Illegal Immigration: There's an App for ThatFrom a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take.
Taint of Corruption Is No Barrier to U.S. Visa - NYTimes.comSeveral times a year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United States from his home in Equatorial Guinea, on his way to his $35 million estate in Malibu, Calif., his fleet of luxury cars, his speedboats and private jet. And he is always let into the country.
The New Face Of Immigration (illegal alien Chinese)China is half way around the world, but the distance isn't stopping Chinese people from paying top dollar to enter the U.S. Illegally. In fact, the number of Chinese immigrants caught in the Arizona desert is up nearly 10 fold in the last year.
As other states get tough (illegal) immigrants turn to TexasThousands of illegal immigrants are flooding into Texas, but they're not crossing the Mexico-United States border. As states such as Oklahoma and California toughen up on immigration, many are opting to relocate to the Lone Star State.
World's Luckiest Train Track Inspector (video)You're working on the rails. Checking the track. Just another day at the office... What can possibly go wrong?
Water discovery fuels hope to colonize moonHaving a store of water on the moon could be a boon to possible future lunar camps. It could yield not only drinking water, but could be broken down to create rocket fuel and more.
White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010 The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
The LAPD fights crime, not illegal immigrationEarlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in a controversial law enforcement program known as 287(g).
Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object HaumaeUnlike all other large Kuiper Belt Objects, which are covered in methane ice and so slightly red in colour, Haumea and its two moons are covered in water ice, giving them a blue tinge. Moreover, Haumea is much denser than water and so must have a rich rocky core.
DOJ arrested 34 undocumented immigrants - majority of the immigrants arrested in the operation had criminal historiesThe Wisconsin Department of Justice announced Wednesday it arrested 34 undocumented immigrants throughout the state last week as a part of a two-week operation.
state will cancel the car registrations of possibly thousands of undocumented immigrants has caused panic - OhioBefore Aug. 24, a loophole in the state Bureau of Motor Vehicle's policy allowed illegal immigrants to register cars in their names by using a power-of-attorney form, even if they didn't have a driver's license.
Immigrants sue feds over 2007 raidTen New Haven residents intend to file a lawsuit today against federal immigration agents and officials, accusing them of violating constitutional rights during the raids in New Haven on June 6, 2007.
Dems Pushing Open Borders With Immigration Reform Bill Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Il.) held a rally on October 13 to encourage the Congress and President Obama to support a mass amnesty for illegal aliens and to introduce his own "comprehensive immigration reform" plan.
Bilingual workers to get a 5 percent raiseSampson County Health Department employees who are in the public health sections of the department and are bilingual in Spanish will receive a salary hike of 5 percent, under an adopted policy by the county board.
Parsippany illegal alien sexually assaulted boy, age 5 - more than 30 timesAn illegal immigrant from Guatemala living in Parsippany was arrested after he allegedly admitted to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old boy more than 30 times over a 3-month period, authorities said Monday
Illegal immigrant faces 15 sexual battery charges - girl was 12 years oldDavid Sanchez, of El Salvador, was charged with 15-counts of sexual battery after the girl's father spotted a man in his daughter's bedroom, reports show.
Illegals get pass on lack of driver's licenseStarting Sunday San Francisco Police will cease impounding vehicles the first time any driver is pulled over that isn't licensed to drive. And it's all because a San Francisco supervisor pushing the issue thinks it is unfair to illegal immigrants.
For Climate Change deniers, seeing still isn't believing. Here's the proof.For those that still don't believe Climate Change is real and man made, maybe they will believe thier own eyes. (and maybe not).
Laser microscope aims to uncover alien life MICROSCOPES revolutionised the study of life on Earth. Now a rugged, easy-to-use instrument is aiming to be equally influential in the search for alien life in locations such as the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
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