On Thin Ice: Chilling Images of a Melting Greenland

ON THIN ICE: CHILLING IMAGES OF A MELTING GREENLAND

Researchers zero in on a little-known landscape that offers some chilling lessons on the future of global warming. 

Scientists say Greeland's glaciers are metling twice as fast as they were even five years ago, and that the amount of fresh water running into the ocean has tripled in a decade.

ON THIN ICE: CHILLING IMAGES OF A MELTING GREENLAND

Researchers zero in on a little-known landscape that offers some chilling lessons on the future of global warming. 

Tourists frequently visit this galcier near Narsaq. The underlying ice core is visible in the bright blue patches, which are exposed as chunks calve from the glacier, forming icebergs when they hit the fjord.