A young boy inspects a small chunk of melting ice that has floated ashore after breaking away from an iceberg that has calved from the Mendenhall Glacier, a major attraction for tourists to nearby Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, USA. A trail around Mendenhall Lake leads visitors to closer views of the glacier, which is the best known of 38 large glaciers that flow down from the vast expanse of snow and ice known as the Juneau Icefield. Mendenhall Glacier has retreated miles (4 kilometers) up the valley since the mid-1700s and the pace of melting is increasing due to global warming.
A young boy inspects a small chunk of melting ice that has floated ashore after breaking away from an iceberg that has calved from the Mendenhall Glacier, a major attraction for tourists to nearby Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, USA. A trail around Mendenhall Lake leads visitors to closer views of the glacier, which is the best known of 38 large glaciers that flow down from the vast expanse of snow and ice known as the Juneau Icefield. Mendenhall Glacier has retreated miles (4 kilometers) up the valley since the mid-1700s and the pace of melting is increasing in modern times due to global warming.
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Location: Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
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