The World

FREEZE! The Great Ice Heist

Stealing five tons of glacier ice from a national park is a crime, but dropping an ancient cube in your cocktail is a treat.

A Chilean man was arrested for stealing 11,000 pounds of glacier. The intercepted ice was destined for cocktail glasses in Santiago. Black market ice is a new problem in Chile but using the glaciers to chill things is an old practice that has built a town in Alaska and a nearly forgotten industry. Living on Earth’s Ike Sriskandarajah brings the cold, hard truth.