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For the first time in almost 20 years, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) won't send a team of observers out on the Atlantic sea ice during the spring seal hunt More...

A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject, and finally, after getting all the necessary "tools" together, she made for the nearest frozen lake. After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly---from the sky---a...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split. The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?'...

Chocolate Ice Cream, Please! A man walks into an ice cream parlor and says "Can I have a pint of chocolate ice cream, please?" The clerk looks up and says "Sorry sir, but we don't have any chocolate left." After careful pondering the man says, "OK, I'll have two scoops of chocolate ice cream...

When Christian Losciale began his first day of work at Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream on Wednesday, he did not expect to volunteer to de-wing cicadas for a new batch of ice cream. “Scott Southwick tossed the idea around the other day, so I had some idea, but he figured now was a good chance,”...

Just a few months after scientists presented tantalizing evidence of ice volcanoes reshaping the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, a new study is throwing some cold water on the prospect. In the new study, a team of scientists say Titan's identifiable surface features were likely...

How to be back the text on a faded store receipt? A specialist ice cream parlour plans to serve up breast milk ice cream and says people should think of it as an organic, free-range treat. The breast milk concoction, called the "Baby Gaga," will be available from Friday at the Icecreamists...

The Rideau Canal will be closed to skating Thursday, after several stretches of warmer weather took its toll on the ice. The National Capital Commission said maintenance crews will work to reopen the Skateway, but it is not known when the ice will be ready again. The Canal opened to skating on...

-- Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said. The two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey. One of the agents...

A swing set stands next to the section of Rideau River where a boy, 9, drowned Tuesday. A nine-year-old boy has died after falling into the Rideau River in Ottawa on Tuesday. Emergency crews pulled the boy from the water around 2:15 p.m., near Strathcona Park — an estimated 800 metres from...

Emergency crews were called to the Red River in Winnipeg to try to rescue two boys who fell through the ice. A passerby rescued one, but his brother remains missing. A six-year-old boy is missing after he and his older brother fell through the ice while playing hockey on the Red River in...

Ingredients: Ice cubes 2 shots Spiced rum Fill with Cranberry juice 1 splash Grenadine Mixing instructions: Pour over ice. Stir. Creator/contributor's comments: A drink I found in Spokane, WA. I have yet to find a bartender that has made one before, or a customer that didn't find them...

A polar bear stands on the western shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, where ice formation is three to four weeks behind schedule, on Nov. 17 . Three polar bears feast on a seal carcass along the western shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba. Hundreds of polar bears in northeastern Manitoba may face...

Federal agents capped a two-year investigation Friday with dozens of arrests they say have broken open a marijuana smuggling operation that "dominated" the New York market for two decades, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced. Among those arrested were Kareem "Biggs" Burke, a founder...

Falling ice kills Wash. girl, 11 VERLOT, Wash., An accident at the Big Four ice caves in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest killed an 11-year-old girl and injured her mother, Washington officials said. KOMO-TV, Seattle, reported the victims' family was on an outing to the caves Saturday...

Abandoned British ship found in arctic BANKS ISLAND, Northwest Territories, Canadian archaeologists have found the HMS Investigator, a British ship abandoned in the arctic ice 155 years ago. Parks Canada archaeologists needed just 15 minutes to find the Investigator, located under 36 feet of...

Robbers target Fla. ice cream vendor BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., (UPI) -- Two robbers' need for cold cash apparently led them to rob an ice cream vendor at gunpoint, a holdup that netted them all of $25, police in Florida say. The Friday night robbery in Boynton Beach started with the two men...

Ancient ice revealing climate secrets KNOXVILLE, Tenn., (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist studying 800,000-year-old polar ice says ocean currents play a significant role in increasing carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Jerome Chappellaz told a Knoxville, Tenn., conference the roughly 40...

PARIS (AFP) – Astronomers on Wednesday said they could explain a nearly four-decade-old enigma surrounding rugged troughs and a chasm in the northern ice cap of Mars that could comfortably house the Grand Canyon. The Red Planet's northern cap measures around 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) across...