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'Old Ice' An iceberg made of densely formed ice, often called 'old' ice, shows light transmitted through it. This colour compaction and its green-blue colour suggests it is older than the other ice formations surrounding it. South Eastern Greenland. The melting and freezing of the now fragile Greenlandic ice creates the unique features and colours displayed in these photographs. All photographed from the air. It is predicted that sea-levels may rise by 6.8 Metres were the Greenland Ice-cap to melt completely. Afsmeltningen og frysningsprocessen af den ny sårbare grønlandske indlandsis skaber unikke former og farver, som kan ses i disse fotografier, der alle er taget fra helikopter. Det forudses, at vandstanden i verdenshavene vil stige med 6,8 meter, hvis hele Grønlands iskappe smelter. Enlarge Image

Award winning pictures from Greenland

Nick Cobbing won second prize in "Picture of the Year" for his work during the Greenpeace expedition to Greenland in the summer of 2005, in the category "Science and Natural History".

Greenpeace crewmembers help scientists to take depth soundings from the bottom of 'melt-lakes' 4.5 Miles South of Swiss Camp, inland from Disko Bay in West Greenland. Enlarge Image

Melting Greenland fuels sea level rise

Greenland's glaciers are melting even faster than previously thought and contributing more and more to sea level rise caused by global warming. If you live near the sea and think global warming isn't a problem for you, it's probably time to think again.

Exxon profits while world warms. Enlarge Image

Hot year for Exxon, planet

ExxonMobil announces record company profits of US$32 billion in 2005. Meanwhile, NASA notes that 2005 was the hottest year on record for our warming planet. Coincidence? We don't think so.

19 days after hurricane ‘Katrina’ hit, devastation is evident, with villages and towns still flooded with contaminated water from the oil industries. Local residents and officials blame a ruptured Shell pipeline for spreading oil through marshes and communities down river from New Orleans. Enlarge Image

Katrina - a natural and unnatural disaster

Greenpeace extends its sympathies to the people of New Orleans, southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who have lost so much in the wake of Katrina.

In the cancer ward of a Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19-year-old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years Enlarge Image

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

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