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World Service,16 Feb 2013,40 mins

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A journey into the kingdom of ice, with Danish glaciologist Poul Christoffersen, just back from measuring the effects of a warming ocean on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica; American engineer Mary Albert who studies ancient snow cores for crucial past climate clues; and Camille Seaman, a Native American artist whose photos of polar icebergs are ‘portraits of individuals’. Photo: Breaching Iceberg – Greenland, August 8, 2008 © Camille Seaman

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