{"id":208212,"date":"2024-02-26T07:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T07:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/stark-mountain-landscapes-exposed-in-canada-as-glaciers-shrink\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:34","slug":"stark-mountain-landscapes-exposed-in-canada-as-glaciers-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/stark-mountain-landscapes-exposed-in-canada-as-glaciers-shrink\/","title":{"rendered":"Stark mountain landscapes exposed in Canada as glaciers shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"replace-inline-image\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20102505\/SEI_191650377.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image alignnone size-full wp-image-2417998 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"Coast Mountains #16, British Columbia, Canada, 2023 &quot;Recent reports on the world's remaining glaciers provide sobering news. Estimates are that most of Western Canada's glaciers will be lost to melting within the next 80 years. By the end of this century, they could all be gone. My daughters, who are in their 20s, will not be looking at the same world when they are my age. These images are a reminder of what's being lost - relics of ancient ice and an essential resource for ecosystems and freshwater in these parts of the world\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1013\" data-credit=\"Edward Burtynsky\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>THIS frigid scene in the Coast mountains in British Columbia, Canada, is a sight to behold \u2013 but enjoy it while you can as it may not be like this for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>When snow falls in places like this, it becomes compacted into thick ice that flows over the land and forms a glacier, creating giant reservoirs of water that sustain life when melting occurs. These are an ancient and vital resource.<\/p>\n<p>\n    <iframe title=\"Edward Burtynsky&#039;s photographs show the ingenuity and devastation of humankind\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A5wVWbiJOb4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The process of glaciation has been happening throughout most of Earth\u2019s history. But many of these icy relics are at risk of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/western-canada-glaciers-1.6705904\">lost, says photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky<\/a>. That is the message behind this photo, on display in the <i>New Works<\/i> exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flowersgallery.com\/exhibitions\/580-edward-burtynsky-new-works\/\">Flowers Gallery in London from 28 February until 6 April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burtynsky took the shot from a helicopter and was shocked to see that the glaciers had receded dramatically compared with 20 years ago, when he last visited. The glaciers in this range date as far back as 150,000 years, but they are shrinking rapidly because of warming as a result of human activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that\u2019s gone, it\u2019s gone, and the whole ecosystem and the whole life system will change forever,\u201d says Burtynsky. His images are designed to serve as a reminder of what has been lost, he says. <i>New Works<\/i> also focuses on soil erosion in Turkey and the impact of coal mining on Australia.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"js-content-prompt-opportunity\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Burtynsky is currently displaying in another exhibition in London, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchigallery.com\/\"><i>Extraction\/Abstraction<\/i><\/a>. This also explores the human impact on the planet and is at the Saatchi Gallery until 6 May.<\/p>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134793-600-stark-mountain-landscapes-exposed-in-canada-as-glaciers-shrink\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] THIS frigid scene in the Coast mountains in British Columbia, Canada, is a sight to behold \u2013 but enjoy it while you can as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342120,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208212\/revisions\/342120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}