1. Meanwhile, the ice mass fraction was decreased by increasing the concentration of litchi juice.

2. Cayambe has lost 40% of its ice mass, possibly 10% in just the last decade.

3. If the ice mass continues to dissolve at the present rates, it will be possible to sail right across the Arctic.

4. Others, though they disagree about the reduction of ice mass, say that the losses are unlikely to cause the feared water shortages.

5. Greenland is losing ice mass at an increasing rate, dumping more icebergs into the ocean because of warming temperatures, he said.

6. Many scientists believe that the huge ice mass around the North Pole would completely dissolved in the summer by 2030.

7. It is also likely that there is ice mass loss in the glaciers below and altitude of 5, 400 metres.

8. "We also are seeing this ice mass loss trend in Antarctica, a sign that warming temperatures really are having an effect on ice in Earth's cold regions," she said.

9. Thus scientists are keen to understand if the Danish-owned Arctic island (Greenland map) is losing more ice mass through melting and discharge of glaciers than it is gaining from fresh snowfall.

10. But the rate of snow and ice melting varies considerably, so changes in ice mass come largely from changes in summertime melt.

11. However, in northern Pakistan, glaciers are advancing in terms of the snout position and probably also in terms of ice mass.

12. But since about 1993, satellites have been measuring the height of the ice and, since 2003, ice mass.

13. Gardner and colleagues used three independent methods to assess ice mass, all of which showed the same trends.

14. Its pace has accelerated over the past decade, to more than a football field every year—a distinctly unglacial rate for an ancient ice mass.

15. The latest satellite data shows that the North-West Passage opened last weekend(http://), and the the remaining ice mass blocking the North-Eastern passage dissolved a few days later.

16. Kwok said: "Ice volume allows us to calculate annual ice production and gives us an inventory of the fresh water and total ice mass stored in Arctic sea ice.

17. If ice streams speed up and drain the ice faster, ice mass will be lost from Antarctica, and gravity will go down a fraction.