Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Extreme Ice Survey: Documenting Climate Change

If you ever wanted direct evidence of climate change, watch this video! Photographer James Balog has spent the past few years installing 26 time-lapse cameras on 15 glaciers globally, monitoring the retreat of these massive reservoirs of ice. This body of work most likely represents the most thorough and dramatic photographic examination of glacier retreat ever. Period.

Some photographs from the Extreme Ice Survey:







How glaciers form and calve:

Visit the website of the Extreme Ice Survey here.



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