Shrinking Glaciers around the World (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Shrinking Glaciers around the World

Caption

The time-lapse photo couplets of glaciers revealing retreat. (A-B) Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, retreat of ~550 m from 2007 to 2015. (C-D) Solheimajokull, Iceland, retreat of ~625 m from 2007 to 2015. (E-F) Stein Glacier, Switzerland, retreat of ~550 m from 2006 to 2015. (G-H) Trift Glacier, Switzerland, retreat of ~1.17 km from 2006 to 2015. (I-J) Qori Kalis Glacier, an outlet of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru, retreat of ~1.14 km from 1978 to 2016.

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(A-H) James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey; (I-J) Lonnie Thompson.

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