A team headed up by Professor Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University have suggested that mountain glaciers are are melting up to 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years. The team of geoscientists from Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm have calculated that since the end of the Little Ice Age about 350 years ago mountain glaciers have lost at least 606 cubic kilometres of ice. Putting this in to perspective this is 5th more water than Lake Erie contains. What has real worried the team though is that the rate has dramatically increased in the last 80 years.
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A thousand pictures are worth…
Time-lapse photographer, James Balog, has used photography to document the ice-loss seen in many glaciers around the world. By setting up a series of cameras to take photographs every 15minutes for several years, the slow environmental changes that we normally would not see, are now sped up into a fascinating 20 minute TED video.
