Arctic glacier melt caught on camera
Effects of warming atmosphere and seas evident in series of new pictures released by Extreme Ice Survey team
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The Extreme Ice Survey team have 34 cameras are deployed at 16 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains of the U.S.
These cameras record changes in the glaciers every half hour, year-round during daylight, yielding approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year.
To mark the launch of their film Chasing Ice they have released a series of stunning pictures from their set of cameras – chronicling the changing world around us.
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