Just 100 Years Apart, The Stark Images Which Point To A Vanishing World

The awe-inspiring McCarty Glacier in Alaska and now (below)
trees grow in an area that was once covered in ice.

Whether the causes of the warming are due to natural rhythms or down to man continues to provide fierce debate. But scientists say they give a face to global warming.

From The Daily Mail:

These revealing photographs show giant glaciers are melting away as the world slowly warms up.

Pictured over the last 106 years, the huge lumps of ice have been slowly melting and creeping back into the mountains.

Where there was ice many metres thick, there is now debris, sediment and stagnation.

In some cases the glaciers have disappeared altogether and the land they once covered has become pasture, lake or woodland.

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