Ice -- on both sea and land, near the poles and at high altitudes -- is connected in a number of ways with changing climate, as both a symptom and a cause. Several news stories about ice melt have come out recently. Charlie Petit at MIT's Knight Science Journalism Tracker has done a bang-up job of summarizing them. So we will save time and effort by linking directly to his work, which will richly reward the climate-curious.

"It's Winter. Good Time for a Day of Icemelt News Part 1: Mountaineer Treks Nepal'S Menacing Lakes" (Knight Science Journalism Tracker) [2]

"Icemelt News, Part II: Arctic Sea Ice – Less Volume, More Bromine, And Maybe a Mercury Peril" (Knight Science Journalism Tracker) [3]