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AFP
CHICAGO
FOR the last decade, American photographer James Balog has been on a mission to document climate change through his camera lens.
His effort has taken him to the farthest reaches of the world, from Antarctica to the northern ends of Greenland, where he has captured the movements and melts of immense glaciers.
The results of his work were on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, which on Thursday opened the exhibit"Extreme Ice."
"I want people to understand the ice,"Balog told AFP in an interview at the show opening."Ice is the manifestation of climate change in action."
That change, often imperceptibly slow, is invisible to the eye. But, through time lapse photography, Balog reveals how 24 glaciers around the world are evolving -- showing giant bodies of ice moving in currents, and crystal blue or green water pooling as melting accelerates.
A scientist by training, Balog's work has already garnered attention and been the subject of two documentaries.
This latest exhibit in Chicago, which juxtaposes photographs of glaciers taken years apart to show their rapid decline, offers updated images and new locations, such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
"(The images) make this subject alive and resonant in people's hearts and minds, in a way that just pure art or pure science wouldn't do alone,"Balog said.
More than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are melting, with 75 billion tons of ice lost in Alaska alone every year.
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