‘City of icebergs:’ Study says 100s of Arctic glaciers shrinking, disappearing
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.
But for Adrienne White, seven field seasons along the northern reaches of Ellesmere Island give the numbers real-world immediacy.
“I’ve been actually able to see with my own eyes, to the point where there were some areas I couldn’t recognize between years,” said White, a University of Ottawa glaciologist.
“One year you’re Ski-Dooing over the ridges of these ice shelves, and then you go back the year after and (it’s) like a city of icebergs.”