The icefields in Patagonia are suffering from the fastest glacial retreat on Earth caused by global warming. Jorge Quinteros who first visited the area during an expedition 50 years ago, joined the Artic Sunrise to witness firsthand the speed of...
Glaciers are more than just magnificent landscapes of ice and snow. Around the world they act as frozen reservoirs providing water for billions of people, as well as animals and plants.
Image: A section of the Petermann glacier in Greenland in July 2009 © Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing A massive chunk of ice, over 87 kilometres in size, has broken off the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland . Scientists are...
Taking a 1968 photograph of the Rongbuk Glacier in Tibet, John Novis joined Greenpeace China on an expedition to take a comparison shot and document the effects of climate change on the area. He tells his story of this very special assignment.
If you want to see just how cosy politicians, nuclear companies and lobbyists can get, just take a look at this from the UK’s Guardian newspaper . With Prime Minister Gordon Brown launching the UK’s nuclear ‘renaissance’, the nuclear...
Independent scientists on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise discovered that a Greenland glacierhas accelerated in the past 17 years, exceeding all expectations, and has now become one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world. These...
Image of the dramatic retreat of the glacier HPS31 in Patagonia.
View of the front of the Grey Glacier where it 'calves' or falls into the glacial lake. The glaciers of Patagonia are some of the fastest retreating glaciers on Earth.
Polar explorer and expert in glacier travel Eric Philips volunteers to rig mooring lines around a solid bollard of ice on the front of the Petermann glacier.
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