Chasing Ice: Film chronicles melting Arctic glaciers
New film from photographer James Balog captures collapsing ice sheets in Greenland’s Ilulissat glacier
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Greenland’s melting ice sheets have been captured on film closer then ever before.
Photographer James Balog says he was once a skeptic about climate change, but his latest project, the Extreme Ice Survey, appears to have changed his mind.
Chasing Ice, which is in cinemas from December 14, chronicles collapsing ice sheets in Greenland’s Ilulissat glacier.
Earlier this year scientists from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported melting in the region had shattered all previous records.
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