30 years ago a young Chinese man set up an ice cream stand. Now he leads an emporium with more stores than McDonald’s

It’s hard to believe in a world dominated by big brands and multinationals, but there is a hospitality chain with more stores than McDonald’s and Starbucks that you’ve probably never heard of. His name is Mixue (Mìxuě Bīngchéng) was founded in the late 90s by a university student from Zhenghou, China, and today it is … Read more

China aims to break records with the largest ice park in the world. And he has already begun to lift it block by block

At the end of November, in Harbin, the image is repeated every winter, with a scale that has not stopped growing in recent editions: cranes, machinery and workers begin to raise structures on a surface that weeks later will become walls, towers and slides made of ice. According to official dataconstruction is advanced this year … Read more

Researchers find a piece of ice from six million years ago. What is really valuable is the air trapped inside

A team of scientists has achieved something extraordinary in the frozen Allan Hills, east of Antarctica: extracting 6-million-year-old ice samples, the oldest ever directly dated. Trapped inside are air bubbles that date back to Earth’s Miocene atmosphere, when our planet was much warmer and sea level considerably higher than today. A time capsule in the … Read more

The Earth is headed for a new ice age, according to a Science study. And it is precisely because of global warming

Science is largely in agreement when it suggests that the Earth’s temperature it increases more and moreand logic could lead us to think that the world is going to become in a real desert like the one in Almería. But to everyone’s surprise, what can happen is a great ice agethat is, everything ends up … Read more

8 kilometers of ice have been lost in two months and researchers only agree on one thing: it is something to worry about

Predict their future the antarctic glaciers It is undoubtedly a great challenge for science, but the most important thing above all is to know How will it affect global sea level?. The worst of all is that the latest news we have at our disposal is not at all positive, since the Hektoria glacier It … Read more

110 years later we finally know what sank the ‘endurance’ in the Antarctic. The culprit was not the ice: it was much worse

He Endurancethe legendary ship of Ernest Shackletonbecame a symbol of resistance and heroism after its sinking in the icy waters of the Weddell Sea in 1915. There began the myth, because during more than a centuryits end was wrapped in a halo of mystery, attributed to the lethal coup of the ice against its rudder. … Read more

Scientists have folded salty ice and discovered that it behaves like an electric generator

When we think of ice and salt, it is normal to imagine a road in the middle of winter: the accumulated snow on the asphalt, the trucks spreading salt in a hurry and the neighbors trying not to slip on the icy sidewalks. It is a typical scene in the north or in the mountain … Read more

So much ice has melted in Greenland that the plankton has grown 40%. It is not good news

The Antarctica and Greenland have become two of the Climate change thermometers. The Ice loss in Greenland It is something that has been monitored for years because not only influences sea level: also in the Sinking of the seabed. It is estimated that Greenland’s glaciers have reached a point of no returnand its implications go … Read more

There are people freezing mandarins and clementines to eat them later as a “ice cream”

In one of the many viral videos that can be making a Scroll Fast in social networks, a young woman a frozen cucumber is passed by the face with the solemnity of who applies a luxury mask. It seems absurd, but the clip accumulates thousands of “like.” It is not an isolated case: in networks, … Read more

In full birth crisis, the ice cream industry has found a new reef in Spain: dogs

No, it’s not yours. For a long time in the parks of Spain (and in the streets, squares, shopping centers and thus a long etcetera of places) it is easier to find pets than with babies. Some calculations They point out that in our country there are already six companion animals for each child under … Read more

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