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Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss - James Balog

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Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

Balog calls ice “the canary in the global coalmine.” What does he mean by this?

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