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Ice hung off a statue of a young boy and a frog at Water Works Park in Port Clinton, Ohio on Dec. 19. Jonathon Bird/Port Clinton News Herald/AP
Young polar bear Wilbaer (r.) and his mother Corinna enjoyed Wilbaer's 'birthday cake,' at the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. Wilbaer celebrated his first birthday on Dec. 10 with an ice cube filled with apples, fish, and carrots. Thomas Kienzle/AP
In February, a couple relexed on a mouton spread atop an ice bed at an ice hotel at the Alpha Resort Tomamu's Ice Village in Shimukappu town. A couple can spend a night at the ice hotel on Japan's norther island of Hokkaido for about $140 including dinner served on an ice table. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters/FILE
An iceberg melted off Ammassalik Island in Greenland in July 2007. More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new Nasa satellite data. John McConnico/AP/FILE
Ice clung to telephone and electric lines after a winter storm in Taghkanic, N.Y. on Dec. 12. The ice storm had knocked out power to 1.25 million homes and businesses from Maine to Pennsylvania, closing schools and stalling travel. Mike Groll/AP
Germany's Tatjana Huefner raced down the track during her first run of the women's single Luge World Cup in the Bavarian resort of Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany. Alexandra Beier/Reuters
An ice-kiter jumped in the air over the frozen Lake Velencei off the coast of Gardony, Hungary. Hungarian ice-kiters and ice-surfers practiced Thursday for an upcoming race on Sunday. Bela Szandelszky/AP
Ice-ballet dancers from the St. Petersburg State Ballet performed the Nutcrakcer Suit in Mexico City's Zocalo main square on Dec. 10. Marco Ugarte/AP
Visitors walked through an illuminated ice palace in Schwarzsee, west of Bern, Switzerland on Jan. 3. Pascal Lauener/Reuters
Ice sculptor Don Chapelle put the finishing touches on an ice sculpture called 'Pipeline,' ahead of New Years Eve at the Boston Common in Boston. Lisa Poole/AP
Visitors attended the opening of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin on Jan. 5. Ng Han Guan/AP
Icicles hung diagonally on Thursday from water skiing signposts as the boardwalk and waters of a lake in Geneva were chilled in a cold snap across the region. Martial Trezzini/Keystone/AP
Ahead of the 14th annual Ouray Ice Festival in Ouray, Colo., climbers used various routes to climb up the ice and rock face on Dec. 30. Climbers from around the world will descend on Ouray for the festival, which lasts from Jan. 9-11. William Woody/Montrose Daily Press/AP
Participants used sledgehammers to break ice carvings symbolizing the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) during a journalists' strike rally near parliament in Seoul on Jan. 6. Hundreds of journalists from the National Union of Media Workers participated in the rally to demand that the GNP stop its attempt to bass a bill to ease broadcasting company ownership by chaebols and conglomerates and rich print media firms. Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
Ice collected on a small tree in Lima, Ohio on Dec. 19. Freezing rain had caused roads to become ice covered and flooded. Kelli Cardinal/Lima News/AP
Chicago Blackhawks' Dave Bolland (36) send Detroit Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg crashing to the ice during the 2009 NHL Winter Classic held outside at Wrigley Field in Chicago on New Years Day. Jeff Haynes/Reuters
On Dec. 20, professional ice carver Aaron Costic from Cleveland, Ohio, used an electronic grinder to carve and smooth his Sea Stallion ice sculpture during the Rock on Ice performance at Mount Crested Butte, Colo. Nathan Bilow/Crested Butte Mountain Resort/AP
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
Green aliens are coming to the southernmost continent on the planet in a most pedestrian manner, according to scientists.
Dangerous green aliens are invading Antarctica, scientists warn, brought not by fantastical spaceships but traveling aboard far more mundane transport — the shoes, clothing and luggage of visitors to the frigid continent, new research reveals.
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