James Balog's
Extreme Ice Survey

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Global Warming: Inside the Extreme Ice Survey

Photographer James Balog takes on his greatest challenge to date: Invent a way to catch global warming in the act.
Photographs by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey


	Svinafellsjokull, Iceland: Upper photo March 2005; lower photo October 2006 << Photo 4 of 7 >>

No one photograph, Balog feels, has ever conveyed the true drama of glacial retreat. The Extreme Ice Survey, he says, is an attempt to "bring back to civilization evidence that radically alters public perception of the global warming issue." These two shots, taken months apart, demonstrate the dramatic seasonal variation of glaciers, increased all the more by climate change.

See the feature story and photographs in "Portrait of a Meltdown" in our October 2007 issue.

Learn more about this project at www.extremeicesurvey.org

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