SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL, ICELAND
April 2006 – September 2007
Changes in the center of the terminus of Sólheimajökull. An EIS team member (in the yellow jacket in the top photo) lends scale to the April ice at Sólheimajökull in Iceland. After just one melt season and a 245-foot retreat, little ice was visible at the glacier’s snout. A second melt season pulled the glacier back still further. Rising temperatures and longer melt seasons have cost the glacier more than a third of a mile over the past decade.
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