Icecap photo shows 'mother nature in tears'

A photograph of a shrinking icecap that looks like ‘mother nature in tears’ is set to become a stark image of the dangers of global warming.

Marine photographer and environmental lecturer Michael Nolan captured the pictures while on an annual voyage to observe the largest icecap in Norway Austfonna on July 16.
He said the image looked just like mother nature in tears, “as if she was crying about our inability to reduce global warming”.

‘Tears’ in the natural sculpture were created by a waterfall of glacial water falling from one of the face’s ‘eyes’.

Mr Nolan has visited Norway’s largest the icecap on the island of Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago for several years.

“The icescape changes every year I visit. Every summer the route has less ice as the polar cap retreats,” he said.

Telegraph