Today marks the first World Day for Glaciers. Years of rapid glacier retreat mean many are unlikely to survive the 21st century. With glaciers shrinking, this event is less of a celebration, and more of a reckoning. Glaciers and mountain ice caps store about 70% of global freshwater resources. In recent years, glacier ice has receded at a record rate. The loss ranges from 2% in the Antarctic to almost 40% in Central Europe.
DW caught up with well-traveled photographer Sean Gallup, whose pictures over the past nine years show the stark transformation in the landscape.
Chapter Breakdown:
0:00 Sean Gallup’s photographs over the past nine years illustrate a stark transformation in the landscape.
3:14 John Kennedy, Scientific Coordinator for the World Meteorological Organization, on climate change’s acceleration and global loss of glacier ice
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