Most melting so far is ice shelves, which does not show up in gravity satellite measurements of mass change.
And it is so far under the ice that 10 Empire State Buildings could be stacked without breaking the surface.
Europe has imposed a formal embargo, going so far as to ice a massive French contract for amphibious assault vehicles.
On that menu, there's the Milk & Honey bowl (the most popular so far), with vanilla ice, coffee caramel, housemade egg pudding and honey jelly, rice cakes and coconut flakes; and the Black & White bowl, with black sesame snow, condensed milk, coconut tapioca, rice cakes and black sesame flakes.
In the United States, this import shows up in restaurants mostly as a garnish, though some chefs have gone so far as to make ice cream with it.
So far did the sea ice pull back this summer that the expedition was able to scan the bottom several hundred miles farther north than in previous surveys, said the project's director, Larry Mayer, an oceanographer at the University of New Hampshire.
One model, DepthX, has been built with $5m from NASA and help from groups including Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas, Austin, and Southwest Research Institute, a Texas-based R&D organisation.For the swimming robots to operate under the ice so far from Earth they have to be autonomous.
The long-term outlook is bleak for both Arctic sea ice and polar bears, including in most regions where the ice has so far remained stable.
Everybody is on the lookout for ice but so far none has been sighted.
"This warmth as well as unusual weather patterns have led to the record-low sea ice extents so far this year".
