기후 온난화로 변화하는 Iceland의 풍경

기후 온난화로 변화하는 Iceland의 풍경

Getty Images의 스태프 사진작가 Sean Gallup은 지난 한주 동안 아이슬란드에서 많은 빙하, 강, 빙하, 산, 계곡을 이미지화했다.

아이슬란드의 풍경은 끊임없이 변화하고 있으며, 지구 온난화로 인해 이러한 변화의 속도가 가속화되고 있다.

Gallup은 아이슬란드의 빙하가 빠르게 녹는 것이 강의 흐름과 형태에 영향을 미치고 있으며, 빙하의 질량감소가 미래의 지진과 화산 활동의 가능성을 높이고 있다고 보고한다.

따뜻한 기후는 농업에도 영향을 미치고 있어 더 많은 작물이 성장할 수 있지만 어부들은 물고기를 찾기 위해 더 멀리 항해하도록 강요하고 있다.

Silt-filled meltwater, much of it from the Hofsjökull ice cap, cascades down a waterfall near Landvegur, Iceland, on August 12, 2021

 

Visitors on a glacier excursion walk on an iceberg as Heinabergsjökull glacier looms in the background on August 16, 2021, near Hofn, Iceland. Heinabergsjökull is one of dozens of glacier tongues that descend from Vatnajökull, Iceland's biggest ice cap

 

In this aerial view, icebergs float between two giant broken off sections of receding Heinabergsjökull glacier in a lake of the glacier's meltwater on August 16, 2021

 

Tourists walk around Seljalandsfoss waterfall on August 12, 2021, near Stóridalur, Iceland. Seljalandsfoss's water comes from the Eyjafjallajökull ice cap

 

Sheep stand near Breidamerkurjökull glacier on August 15, 2021, near Hof, Iceland. Breidamerkurjökull, among the biggest of the dozens of glaciers that descend from Vatnajökull ice cap, is melting, losing an average of 100 to 300 meters in length annually

 

In this aerial view, Svínafellsjökull glacier ends in a small lake of meltwater near Svínafell, Iceland, on August 13, 2021

 

Flowers bloom on yellow saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides), a kind of succulent plant, on mostly barren and gravel-covered land left 

behind by the receding Breidamerkurjökull glacier on August 15, 2021. 

Hlynur Steinsson, a ranger with Vatnajökull National Park and graduate student, has been analyzing the soil near Breidamerkurjökull, 

which he says is already showing an abundance of bacteria and fungi that are crucial to beginning the process of ecological recovery. Forests once covered the area but were obliterated by the advancing glacier hundreds of years ago.

 

Hlynur Steinsson uses a magnifying glass to examine a tiny plant growing on mostly barren and gravel-covered land left behind 

by the receding Breidamerkurjökull glacier on August 15, 2021

 

An iceberg that has broken off of Breidamerkurjökull glacier, which looms behind, floats on the lake of Jökulsárlón on August 15, 2021. 

Water drips from a melting chunk of ice that originated from Breidamerkurjökull glacier, floated out to sea, and then washed up with many other ice chunks on a nearby beach of volcanic sand on August 15, 2021, near Hof, Iceland. 

 

Visitors take photos among chunks of ice from Breidamerkurjökull glacier on a nearby beach on August 15, 2021.

 

Fisherman Vigfus Asbjornsson (left) sorts his catch of cod and pollock on August 16, 2021, in Höfn, Hornafjördur, Iceland. Global warming is contributing to a rise in temperatures in the waters around Iceland, which is affecting the fishing industry. Changing temperatures have a strong influence on where species of fish find habitats, leading to shifts in the fishing catch. One local fisherman said the spawning grounds of the fish he catches are moving farther north year by year. 

 

Freshly cut hay lies rolled into bales at a farm near Landvegur, Iceland, on August 12, 2021. While climate change is presenting the country with a host of problems, agriculture is benefiting as the warming climate increases natural opportunities for vegetation to grow.

 

 

In this aerial view, native birch trees, recently planted by the Icelandic Forest Service, grow next to a desert of volcanic sand near Landvegur, Iceland, on August 12, 2021. The Icelandic government has pledged to reduce the country's carbon footprint and is investing in reforestation as a means to offset emissions. At the same time Iceland's warming climate is increasing natural opportunities for vegetation to grow. About 25 percent of Iceland was once covered in forests. Over hundreds of years, human exploitation and sheep grazing gradually reduced that amount to 2 percent today.

 

 

Icebergs from Heinabergsjökull glacier are seen reflecting in the still meltwater lake on August 16, 2021.

 

A jagged peak pokes through the ice and snow-covered Vatnajökull ice cap on August 13, 2021, near Svínafell, Iceland.

 

In this aerial view, a tractor cuts hay to feed livestock over the winter on August 15, 2021, near Höfn, Iceland.

 

Fjallsjökull glacier ends in a lake of its own meltwater on August 14, 2021, near Hof, Iceland. 

 

Meltwater descends in shifting rivulets from Vatnajökull ice cap and flows toward the ocean on August 14, 2021.

 

Visitors on a guided glacier tour cross a river of meltwater at the base of Falljökull glacier on August 13, 2021.

 

Visitors walk at the base of melting Svínafellsjökull glacier on August 13, 2021, near Svínafell, Iceland.