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Glacier from the air

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

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