What this award-winning picture says about climate change, and the loss of Arctic ice | 24CA News
The Current12:57A crack within the ice, and a altering local weather
On the Milne Fiord final summer time, photojournalist Dustin Patar captured a picture of two folks peering right into a deep crack within the ice, as they studied the affect of local weather change on the Arctic.
“What they’re actually doing in that photo is looking to see if that crack goes all the way through into the water, below the ice,” stated Patar, who took the picture as a contract journalist, however now works with CBC North.
“Beneath the surface, something else was happening that essentially says that this climate, this environment, this ecosystem is very limited in time,” he instructed The Current’s Matt Galloway.
The Milne Ice Shelf on northern Ellesmere Island collapsed in 2020. Considered to be Canada’s final absolutely intact ice shelf, it was nearly 4,000 years previous. Patar travelled to the Milne Fiord final summer time, to doc the work of scientists investigating the results of the collapse.
After the Milne Ice Shelf on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island collapsed in 2020, a lake it was supporting disappeared. Scientists returned north this summer time to attempt to perceive what that would imply for the island’s glaciers.
That work, initially revealed in The Narwhal in Sept. 2022, gained a Digital Publishing Award two weeks in the past. This week, one specific picture — exhibiting an Ellesmere Island resident and a researcher peering into a big crack within the ice — gained the inaugural CJF-Edward Burtynsky Award for Climate Photojournalism.
Here are a few of Patar’s photographs from “the very top of the world.”
