Melting Glaciers Reveal Morraine

Two people appear as almost invisible, tiny figures silhouetted against the blue sky atop a glacial morraine in Greenland. A morraine is a mass of rock and dirt deposited as a glacier melts, and this particular morraine is expanding as the glacier, the white band along the horizon, continues to melt and retreat.

When the photographer was last at the location in Greenland five years ago, the glacier reached to where the two figures in the image stand and a truck could drive right up to the ice’s edge.

Credit: Peter West