icecap

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We dug deep channels into the icecap and ran hundreds of meters worth of cable, we used chainsaws to cut blocks of ice that had encased the station's pillar supports.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

Evidence for such tipping points is growing — for example in the unexpectedly rapid melting of the Arctic icecap.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2020

To hazards like icecap cracks, nuclear leaks and rising seas, add another environmental threat: language fallout.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

A Flying Fortress with 13 men aboard smacked down on its belly 100 miles in land on the treacherous Greenland icecap.

From Time Magazine Archive

The polar icecap had made Antarctica a frozen desert.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong