The ice around the edge of Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, potentially unlocking metres of sea-level rise in the long-term, researchers have warned.
We ate fish kebabs with coconut salsa, giant prawns, palm heart souffles, melting sorbets and wonderful cardamom ice cream.
But when you set up a society, it's a melting pot.
That's what Fragonard's painting The Swing is about – the wonderful joke of the painting is that while the man tries to sneak a look up the swinging woman's skirts, Fragonard's receding, melting, luxuriant garden landscape gives the painting's beholder a sensory evocation of all he longs to see.
A momentary fondu, a "melting" bend of the supporting knee (as opposed to fondue, a melting of Gruyère cheese) and she's into the next step.
In turn, this helps scientists to estimate the contribution of melting ice sheets to rising sea levels.
This is the same country that sells its capital, London, as a global hub, a melting pot of nations where more than a third of residents – or about 2.5m - are foreign born and pretty much everyone rubs along nicely together.
Eat, with a salad of frisée and watercress, once the cheese is melting and the toast is crisp.
The melting pot that simmered in the hot California sun... Nothing like him, before or since, his prose is so evocative I can feel myself sweating when I read his work, even in a brutal Canadian winter.
If Billy Elliot heralds a new strain of melting-pot cinema, it's only reflecting the wider melting-pot in the land at large.
Magritte's deadpan art unsettles by melting boundaries between reality and fantasy.
