Mountains of Ice
Photographer Lorenzo Mittiga shows the beauty, strength and fragility of the threatened land of Antarctica.
Icebergs bear the trace of the wound of detachment. Once they were one, then they became two, then many. Ungainly and random fragments of a single mother : the Earth. Of one father : Ice.
Big iceberg with visible deep cracks © Lorenzo Mittiga
Edge of a glacier with "geen snow" © Lorenzo Mittiga
Big iceberg drifting in the Antarctic ocean. © Lorenzo Mittiga
Antarctic sunset © Lorenzo Mittiga
Big iceberg drifting in the Antarctic ocean. © Lorenzo Mittiga
Large cave at the feet of the glacier © Lorenzo Mittiga
Iceberg's ice melting at the sun © Lorenzo Mittiga
The regions of Antarctica are reacting in a particularly evident way to climate change compared to other areas of the Earth. Today the study of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean provides significant elements to be able to quantify the influence of human activities on global warming, in order to implement possible intervention and correction measures.
Overunder image of small iceberg in the shallow water of Recess cove © Lorenzo Mittiga
Overunder image of small iceberg in the shallow water of Recess cove © Lorenzo Mittiga
Overunder image of small iceberg in the shallow water of Recess cove © Lorenzo Mittiga© Lorenzo Mittiga
Glacier fracures © Lorenzo Mittiga
© Lorenzo Mittiga
Glacier © Lorenzo Mittiga
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