Changes in glaciers and ice caps provide some of the clearest indicators of climate change and impacts on global sea levels. The latest UNEP/World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) publication shows that there is mounting evidence of a general retreating trend in glaciers in the Arctic and that glaciers may completely disappear from many mountain ranges in the 21st century.
Year: 2011
From album: The state of Glaciers in Greenland
Photographer:
Lawrence Hislop