Melting Landscapes. Glaciers (S)

The documentary, Melting Landscapes - Glaciers, showing the slow, but constant melting of our earth's glaciers and its relationship with climate change, was shot in Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, Greenland and Iceland. The study of our planet's glaciers is key to understanding climate change. Glaciers store 75% of our fresh water, reflect excess heat back to space and keep our planet cool. A small air bubble trapped in ice millions of years ago possesses valuable information about past climate and analysing them provides direct data on when they were created. Global warming is causing accelerated fusion of Arctic ice, the Greenland mantle and the most vulnerable regions of Antarctica, altering their habitats, ocean currents and the climate worldwide. In listening to our earth's glaciers recede in a disturbing silence, we are witnessing a change with no return, as each disappearing small ice particle slowly takes us one step closer to uncertain alteration.