On the broad white expanse of Greenland small groups of researchers from around the world looking for evidence of the impact of global warming on the ice of Greenland. They measure the movement of glaciers, the density of snow cover, ice thickness, and more, trying to understand how and when the snow will melt. Living in Greenland Eskimos have witnessed a rapidly changing landscape. In Inuit language there are many words for ice in all its forms, and his disappearance affects their lives. Photographer "Associated Press" Brennan Linsley spent some time on the Arctic island, taking pictures of the researchers, residents, and ice, ice, ice.
1. Afternoon sun illuminated the iceberg among the drifting ice from the glacier Yakobshavn July 19 in Ilulissat. Greenland is now the focus of researchers trying to understand how melting ice could raise sea level. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
2. Drifting ice, icebergs split off from the Greenland ice cap is almost closed the coastal strip of Ilulissat. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
3. Formed under the influence of pressure ridges form the surface of the glacier Yakobshavn, near the edge of the ice cap in Greenland. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
4. Eskimo hunter Nukappi Brandt runs his boat, where sat his daughter and 9-year-old Aaneerak and 8-year-old from the city Luusi Kekertarsuak, Disco Island on July 21. 49-year-old Brandt is a hunter with 14 years of age. He said that 20 years ago, when the winter ice was too thin to withstand the cart with the dogs, the seal hunt has lost its priority. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
5. Blue pools of melting ice on the glacier Yakobshavn. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
6. Drift ice in the harbor city of Ilulissat. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
7. The Eskimos of Kekertarsuaka. Clockwise from top left: John Lindenhann (hunter), 14-letnyayaElizabet Petersen (schoolgirl), 49-year-old Nukappi Brandt (hunter), 66-year-old Knud Hansen (hunter), 8-year-old Anna-Catherine Brandt, 17 - year-old Malik Leander (crew member on catching shrimp). (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
8. Daughters of the Greenland hunter Nukappi Brandt 9-year-old Aanerak (right) and 8-year-old Luusi cycling back home after a failed seal hunting with his father in Kekertarsuake. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
9. Greenland dog with her mother in Kekertarsuake. According to many Greenlanders, 20 years ago, the ice became too thin to withstand the sled dogs, and the seal hunt had lost its importance. Some hunters, their dogs were fed through the winter production, simply could not contain them, so they had to shoot them. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
10. Hunting trophy - the narwhal tusk - hangs next to the mini-replicas of traditional hunting accessories on the wall in the house of the Eskimo family. The whales have long been the main component of Inuit life in Greenland, where the regular hunting of them continues to this day. The Arctic Circle is warming twice as fast than the rest of the world, making ice, on which depend the lives of many Greenlanders, melting with each passing day more quickly. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
11. Normal family Eskimos (from left to right) with his daughter Estrella Brandt Noelle, Louise Brandt and their mother Rosa Maria Brandt on the 50th anniversary of the household head in Kekertarsuake. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
12. Eskimo sealer is preparing to shoot the prey, which disappeared under the water before he shot. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
13. Melting front of the glacier near the Kekertarsuaka. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
14. Fishing boat among icebergs near Ilulissat. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
15. Melting ice floats past the fjord near Nuuk. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
16. A fisherman pulls a fish from the sea of ice from glaciers breakaway. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
17. Rig "Leiv Eiriksson" in the 53 000 tonnes has recently become a new target of activists from the "Greenpeace", who choose not to give the Scottish oil company «Cairn Energy» begin deepwater drilling in the Arctic waters. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Steve Morgan)
18. Vienna dense net of blue ice on the surface of the melting iceberg off the coast of Kekertarsuaka. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
19. Greenlandic Eskimo and fisherman swims past the melting iceberg along the fjord near Nuuk. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
20. Melting iceberg along the fjord near Nuuk. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
21. Aerial view of the edge of the Greenland ice cap near the group of lakes in the center of Greenland. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
22. Tied a rope to a waiting helicopter near the polar explorer Karl Gledish from New York University is setting a new GPS seismometer, designed to track the movement of ice near the edge of the ice cap of Greenland glacier Yakovshavn. Principal Investigator David Holland of the University hopes that soon they will have enough equipment to measure the melting ice in Greenland. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
23. A splitting constant cloud over the front of the glacier Yakovshavn width of 6 km. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
24. Man on the background of the ice cap near the Kekertarsuaka. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
25. Logist ready podzapravit C-130 aircraft on the world's longest ice runway length of 5120 meters in a small research center at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
26. Main Building Research Station, U.S. national training fund at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level. All building periodically raised on piers to avoid the accumulation of snow. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
27. Uneven surface of the glacier Yakobshavn. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
28. A graduate of Dartmouth College of Engineering Suk-Yun Lee helped test the prototype of the polar robot on wheels, developed for research on long distances, at a station in Greenland. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
29. Drifting ice near the edge of the ice cap of Greenland, Ilulissat at. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
30. 64-year-old Liz Morris of the University of Kembridskogo on the ice cap some days before the study visit for 800 miles on snowmobiles, which will last a month. Sponsors travel Morris became the National Research Council, Environmental Protection UK. In 2003 Queen Elizabeth gave a fearless Morris Polar Medal for her contribution to the study of the Arctic Circle and Antarctica. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
31. Researchers at rest on a nearly 3-mile piece of ice from his station. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
32. Drifting icebergs near the town of Ilulissat. (AP Photo / Brennan Linsley)
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