Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting: Pasterze Glacier, Austria, 2005(View Actual Size)

The following are statistics regarding glacial melting drawn from a variety of sources: a 1°F rise in global air temperature last century contributed to glacial melting worldwide (Pew Center on Global Climate Change). Ninety percent of monitored glaciers are shrinking (USGS). Europe's alpine glaciers have lost half their volume since 1850, and by 2100 half of what's left will be gone too (WWF). Photo Credit: Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project