Greenland Thin Ice Clipreel #1

The MV Arctic Sunrise tours the Kangerdlussuaq Fjord in Greenland that, until a few years ago, was filled with a massive glacier that has retreated 5 km in the last few years due to global warming. Greenpeace, with scientists from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, USA, are documenting evidence of climate change. Preliminary findings indicate Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier on Greenland's east coast could be one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world with a speed of almost 14 kilometres per year. Clipreel features GPS data collection expeditions by climate change scientists to Dauggard, Graah, Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers and Nordvest fjord and charcoal drawing on ice by artist Bernard McLeod.