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There’s one sound that  gets a big reaction from kids on  a hot day: the sound of an ice-cream  truck.

Maria McCartney  has been in the mobile ice-cream  business since 2005.

Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000 -year -long warming as the last ice age ended and the icemeltedaway.

My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Indeed, sea ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.

king penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deteriorating faster than expected.

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

This is troubling as climbing Arctic temperatures combined with rapid sea ice loss are creating a new type of climate feedback loop, which could accelerate Arctic warming.

We actually found there wasn't any multi-year ice at all.

Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.

We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.

without those masses of cooling sea ice, warm air brought to the Arctic can penetrate further inland than it ever did before.

Chewang norphel lives in a mountainous region in india, where he is known as the ice man.

Climate change is a continuing process, so Norphel's ice reserves will not last forever.

Drinking my iced coffee, I ran my fingers along the streets from the hotel to the opera hall.

Having created nine such ice reserves, norphel calculates that he has stored about 200, 000m3 of water.

His fields of ice supply perfectly timed irrigation water.

I didn't mean to eat anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn't help trying it.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

In the town of Tiverton, a new ice-cream store, the Muddy Moos, is opened.

It's a great place to get ice-cream, coffee and other food.

Joe fell into a huge crevasse in the ice below.

Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.

The ice won't last any longer.

The pony responsible was queuing up for some ice cream in the car park near Haytor, and perhaps thought I'd jumped in ahead of him.

There is ice on the lake.

This makes a fun activity for a children's party; they love feeding the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.

This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco's most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.

Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering, malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how London's ice trade grew.

When combined with berries of slices of other fruits, frozen bananas make an excellent base for thick, cooling fruit shakes and low fat "ice cream".