Global warming and the life of Greenland Bashny.Net

Rapid warming and melting of the Greenland ice sheet has provoked. It has initiated many changes in the life of the local people. Steel, other methods of fishing, hunting, movement on land.

Journalist Joe Radley in 2013 took a series of photographs that reveal unusual conditions of life of the island areas of Denmark.




The view from the window of a house in Kekertake Greenland.



Iceberg near Ilulissat.



The water on the ice surface. Every year it is more and more coming to the territory, moving residential buildings. People are forced to retreat.

The climate is harsh and ugly and Greenland. The average annual temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. The average summer temperature here is -12 ° C, and in winter there are frosts up to -60 ° C!



Girls ride on roller skates in Ilulissat



Sled dog lying on the background of houses and icebergs in Ilulissat



The village of Ilulissat, Greenland

The coastline is indented with rocky ledges massive icebergs, many of which are surrounded by beautiful fjords.





Ice crystals on the surface of the ice sheet

Autonomous territory of Denmark a bit like the country itself. Lifestyle is unique. Entertainment a little, almost no, houses small and modest, but why build a large, if after some time, many residents of the shoreline have to move? Many people here - the intellectual elite, which studies the local situation. Curiously, all settle on a high professional level. The roads are incredibly impressive.



Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland



Newlyweds Adam and Ottilia Olsen kissing at home in Kekertake

Once the island was called the Green Country. And now he is almost completely covered with ice and water, clean, blue, and incredibly beautiful.



Ottilia and Adam Olsen on their wedding day in Kekertake



Tent of researchers from the University of Washington, who study the processes of melting glaciers in Greenland. With the help of satellite instruments could find cavities in which over time will begin to penetrate the melt water.



Full moon over iceberg near Ilulissat



President and CEO, Institute of High Arctic studies peregrines, the conditions of their migration and breeding conditions the melting of glaciers.



Reindeer (Caribou) in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

The caribou and musk ox - relict endemic, surviving on the island. More breed such animals do not exist anywhere else on the planet.



Flowers in Kangerlussuaq



Melt water on the surface of the ice sheet

Greenland tourist region. There are hot springs, decent hotels and beautiful scenery. Those who are not afraid of the harsh climate, you want to stay here longer. But in general it is necessary to keep up to visit places because every year the island has become less suitable for life. However, in this age of its resources and beauty is enough.