by WideWorld
04.05.2009
Last month the National Geographic channel aired Extreme Ice, a programme documenting the largest photographic study of the cryosphere (the frozen surfaces of the Earth) ever attempted. And now, you can watch it online.
Ice sheets and glaciers are breaking apart and heading towards the oceans at an alarming rate. Photographer James Balog is risking life and limb to capture the phenomena on film as scientists attempt to forecast the future consequences.
Balog deployed 25 time-lapse cameras on glaciers across the Northern Hemisphere for the Extreme Ice Survey and this documentary about this feat – in some of the most inhospitable places on the planet – is hard proof, if we needed it, that these transformations can happen right before our eyes.
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