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    Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice

    Research teams traversing partially melted fjord to retrieve weather equipment release startling picture
    by Alison Rourke and Fiona Harvey Jun 17, 2019 3 minutes
    A team from the Danish Meteorological Institute travels across the melted sea ice to retrieve equipment. Photograph: Steffen M Olsen/Twitter

    Rapidly melting sea ice in Greenland has presented an unusual hazard for research teams retrieving their oceanographic moorings and weather station equipment.

    A photo, taken by Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute on 13 June, showed sled dogs wading through water ankle-deep on top of a melting ice sheet in the country’s north-west. In the startling image, it seems as though the dogs are walking on water.

    The photo, taken in the depicted water on top of what Olsen said was an ice sheet 1.2 metres thick.

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