Nations scramble to claim their share of the petroleum riches trapped deep within the Arctic seabed as global warming loosens that ocean's icy grip on its bounty (scientificamerican.com)
The governor was scheduled to talk about his proposed state budget at Syracuse University's Schine Student Center, but was grounded by the spring storm that has upstate in its relentless icy grip. (nystateofpolitics.com)
In 2000, as the green shoots of spring cracked through winter's icy grip on the northern hemisphere, a letter from the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and his colleague Eugene Stoermer appeared in the news bulletin of the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme. (seedmagazine.com)