Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice(1/2)

Rapidly melting sea ice in Greenland has presented an unusual hazard for research teams retrieving their oceanographic moorings and weather station equipment. A photo, taken by Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute on 13 June, 2019 showed sled dogs wading through water ankle-deep on top of a melting ice sheet in the country’s north-west. In the startling image, it seems as though the dogs are walking on water. The photo, taken in the Inglefield Bredning fjord, depicted water on top of what Olsen said was an ice sheet 1.2 metres thick.(Photo/Agencies)

The file photo taken on June 18, 2018 shows an iceberg floating in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland.(Photo/Agencies)