Issues: Global Warming

Polar Thaw: Global Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic
Photographs from 'World View of Global Warming' by Gary Braasch

 
Link to intro
  
Link: Journey to the ice
Link: Glacier gives way
Link: Warming Adelie penguins
Link: Garden research
Link: Caribou crossing a climate watershed
Link: Native folkways eroding away
Link: Disintegrating ice shelf
Link: Polar thaw bears down
Link: Adelie penguins
Link: Boreal overview
Link: Dying forests
Link: Tipping the balance



GLACIER GIVES WAY, Marr Ice Piedmont, Anvers Island.Photo from World View of Global Warming by Gary Braasch

This large glacier is "calving" into the water and has receded over 1600 feet since the 1960s. Then, the glacier front's edge was to the left of the line of ice floating in the harbor and extended to the headland at the extreme upper left.

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All photos © Gary Braasch


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