The beauty of waning icebergs

Reposted by Gustavo Copelmayer. Photographer Isabel Muñoz has been immersed in the underwater depths of Japan at -6 degrees for hours, in the sea where icebergs turn into clouds. The images of freediver Ai Futaki, flying in the water, are awe-inspiring and exciting. They warn of the weakening of the frozen heart of the Pacific due to the unstoppable advance of global warming.

“The heart of the North Pacific”, as the polar oceanographer Kay Ohshima calls the Sea of Okhotsk. And this heart is weakening due to global warming, he warns. The ice that is generated at the beginning of each year north of this sea, which It extends from the coasts of Siberia to the Japanese island of Hokkaido, creating underwater currents rich in oxygen and substances that nourish the entire North Pacific. If the ice decreases, this essential contribution to marine life is also reduced. According to data from the organization nongovernmental Berkeley Earth, the environmental temperature in the area has risen by nearly three degrees Celsius since the 1880s, more than double the average rise on the planet. Every February, floating icebergs often reach Hokkaido, a grandiose spectacle whose continuity depends of the climate of the poles, of the health of the Earth.

Gustavo Copelmayer invites you to read the rest of this interesting article by Isabel Muñoz and Belinda Saile and watch the fantastic video. Click here.