An ice-free channel in the river.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

An ice-free summer Arctic Ocean might serve this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress-Testing the Planet] Reference

MARKUS: We may very well see an ice-free summer in the Arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference

We may very well see a summer -- an ice-free summer in the Arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference

We may very well see the summer -- an ice-free summer in the arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference

Oilmen are salivating to extract oil and gas from an ice-free Arctic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A New Iran Emerges] Reference

MARKUS: We may very well see the summer -- an ice-free summer in the arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2009] Reference

Among their discoveries were the ice-free Bunger Hills near the Shackleton Ice Shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aerial Exploration of the Antarctic] Reference

O'BRIEN: Some scientists believe the Arctic may be ice-free in the summer in only five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2008] Reference

It also warned that global warming could leave the region ice-free in the month of September 2030.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vladimir Putin calls for Arctic claims to be resolved under UN law] Reference

So the Arctic Ocean is now projected to be ice-free for the first time in 2020 instead of 2050 or 2100.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007] Reference

Evaporation from these shallow water bodies is very likely to increase as the ice-free season lengthens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic] Reference

Two ice-free, flat-topped columnar rocks, the Tvistein Pillars, lie just east of the steepest coast of the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter I Island] Reference

The ice-free portions of the region are characterized by semi-desert with moss and algae vegetation on ahumic soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maudlandia Antarctic desert] Reference

In ice-free waters, it is the onset of thermally-derived stratification that determines the timing of the spring bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic] Reference

The lengthening of the ice-free season has been greatest in the western and central portions of the northern continents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cryosphere and Hydrology in the Arctic] Reference

Recovery will build on Lithuanian's strategic location with its ice-free port at Klaipeda and its rail and highway hub in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Above 200 m, mosses and lichens dominate ice-free regions and are also important components of the flora at lower regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia] Reference

ARNOLD: The prospect of an ice-free Arctic has a multitude of consequences, many of which were discussed at length this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Serious is Climate Change in Alaska?] Reference

Maudlandia differs from Marielandia in that the larger expanses of ice-free land are found inland, rather than near the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maudlandia Antarctic desert] Reference

Scientists now say the Arctic Circle could be completely ice-free -- ice-free -- in the summertime by the end of this century.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005] Reference

It is colder inland than by the ice-free shores of the Northern Ocean, where the warm currents of the Gulf Stream moderate the cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Celsius; at some coastal points intense persistent drainage winds from the interior keep the shoreline ice-free throughout the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Longer ice-free conditions and late-summer storms may accelerate the release of terrestrial carbon frozen during the last glaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic] Reference

More than 80% of all people live in the densely populated urban and village biomes that cover approximately 8% of global ice-free land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthropogenic biomes] Reference

This site can only be compared with one other known high-altitude geothermally-influenced ice-free area near the summit of Mount Erebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maudlandia Antarctic desert] Reference

But it's increasingly clear that on the current trajectory, we're going to have an ice-free Arctic in the summertime within a decade or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Meltdown] Reference

Although some areas were ice-free and supported a flora and fauna, mean annual temperatures were 10 to 13 °C colder than during the Holocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

Recovery will build on Lithuanian's strategic location with its ice-free port at Klaipeda and its rail and highway hub in Vilnius connecting it with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference

But it reached Greenland in just 14 months, stark evidence that the sea ice found a more open, ice-free, and thus faster path westward thanks to Arctic melting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate-Change Calculus] Reference

Area: total: 14 million sq km land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) (est.) note: second-smallest continent (after Australia).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

America, and South America, but larger than Australia and the subcontinent of Europe land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) (est.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

On average, only approximately 0.3% of the electromagnetic energy of solar radiation that reaches the earth's ice-free surfaces is converted to chemical energy of new phytomass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global material cycles] Reference

Area: total: 14 million sq km land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) (est.) note: fifth-largest continent, following Asia, Africa, North.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference