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Greenpeace activist Erika Augustinsson (Swedish), comparing a photo of Blomstrandbreen (1928) with the present situation. Enlarge Image

Glaciers melt before our eyes

If you could join the Greenpeace time ship and travel back 100 years, what would you see? You would be lucky to see one of the early cars, you would likely see mountains of coal and the beginnings of our fossil fuel dependence. And if you could travel deep within the Arctic circle you would see snow and ice which today is only a distant memory in fading photographs.

Offshore windpark in Denmark. Denmark is one of the leading countries in developing wind power. Enlarge Image

Moving towards a clean energy future

While the shock at the horrible ecological catastrophe off Spain is fresh in our minds, we should focus on solutions to address this problem.

Flames consume huge areas of forest in Montalvao, Portugal. Portugal declared a national disaster after the worst forest fires in more than two decades killed nine people, torched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed homes in 2003. Enlarge Image

Welcome to a warmer world

Last year parts of Europe were experiencing the worst flooding for hundreds of years. Now Europe is sweltering in a continent-wide heat wave and fatal forest fires. This extreme weather is set to become more common as climate change gathers pace.

Walrus on ice floe; Greenpeace tour investigating climate change effects, Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Enlarge Image

Ice melts as globe warms

The cryosphere is that part of the Earth made of frozen water and soil: Iceworld, if you will. And according to a new study to be published in January, it's a world that is vanishing rapidly, with potentially devastating consequences.

Polar bears in Churchill in Manitoba, Canada have to be tranquillised then airlifted north in order to access their natural habitat as the sea ice is returning later and later after the summer months. Enlarge Image

Polar bears dream of a white Christmas

An Arctic without ice. Polar bears extinct in the wild. Mass starvation of reindeer. And as a result of their snowy world melting, the possibility of a global sea-level rise of devastating proportions. It's the worst disaster film you've ever seen. Made real.

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