thaw water

When warm weather returns, the shrunken cells absorb the thawing water and revive.

Empty the fridge, wipe it out, collect up thawed water from its freezer section and leave the door propped open.

In addition to this, the reserve also protects a historic quarry, in which scientifically important sediments from ancient glacial thaw water have been found.

Norway, which monitors its mountain ice closely because it uses the thawing water for its power stations, found its glaciers on average growing by more than 30 feet over the last five years.