Scientists say climate change and human activity have increasingly led to the melting of massive pieces of Antarctic ice.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

When melting snow crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice,called sleet.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The melting ice resulting from climate change would affect coastal areas around the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The painting shows melting clocks,insects, and a dead tree in an empty landscape.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Parts of Antarctica are also believed to be melting because of climate change.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

The newer ice,experts say, is less resistant to melting during the summer months.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Melting snow provides water for rivers,electric power centers and agricultural crops.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Then the ice started melting and moved north again.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Explorer Pen Hadow led a two-and-a-half-month trek earlier this year that revealed Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Minn Myint Nan Tin, with the Burmese Advocacy Center,or BAC, says keeping this melting pot from boiling over is a delicate balancing act.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"The the United States is a melting pot of any nations you can name it on earth."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"where the atmosphere holds more water moisture, where the poles are melting, where we seeing the oceans acidify, not for our grandchildren, but for us.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

While this work isn't about polar bears specifically, the melting Arctic does mean they're threatened.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The bear he says brings that message home. "It gives people an opportunity to connect with literally the processes that are going on up on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole which is melting,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

When rain and melting snows flow over a city's streets, parking lots and sidewalks, that runoff picks up all kinds of pollutants residues of petroleum and pesticides, soaps and solvents, as well as pet and wildlife waste.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04