Showing posts with label Jakobshavn Fjord. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jakobshavn Fjord. Show all posts
Photo of the Day 377
Photograph by James Balog At four miles (six kilometers) wide and several thousand feet thick Jakobshavn Isbræ disgorges icebergs like these faster than any other of Greenland's glaciers. Its output, accelerated by global warming, totals some 11 cubic miles (45 cubic kilometers) of ice each year. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Big Thaw," June 2007, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the day 225
Photograph by James Balog Icebergs, including one with a sapphire pool of meltwater, clutter Greenland's Jakobshavn Fjord near the village of Ilulissat. The glacier that produced this flotilla has receded some four miles (six kilometers) since the year 2000. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Big Thaw," June 2007, National Geographic magazine)
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