Then and now: How glaciers around the world are melting
April 2, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past decade, scientists and photographers keep returning to the world's glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want others to see how a warming planet is melting masses of ice in a series of before-and-after photos.
In the Geological Society of America's GSA Today journal , a group of ice researchers and a photographer-filmmaker published pictures showing how much five of the world's glaciers have thinned.
"There is something fundamentally compelling about the approach they take. For all our emphasis on models and math, seeing is still believing," s...
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