Melting ice caps

August 28, 2007, Greenland: A man admires the view of the Jacobshavn Fjord, east of the town of Ilulissat Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

August 30, 2007, Greenland: A general view of the town of Ilulissat. Fishermen and hunters avoid the fjords where the ice has become too thin to travel on. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

August 31, 2007, Greenland: A general view of Ilulissat harbour Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

September 2004, Greenland: Three years ago the port of Ilulissat was packed with ice Photograph: SLIM ALLAGUI/AFP

August 26, 2007, Greenland: Arne Lange, a 39-year-old Inuit fisherman looks for seals from an island near his home town of Ilimanaq. Instead of summer fishing. Lange now hosts eco-tourists in his home. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

August 24, 2007, Greenland: Icebergs float in Jacobshavn Bay near the town of Ilulissat Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

July 19, 2007, Greenland: An iceberg melts off Ammassalik Island in eastern Greenland. Photograph: John McConnico/AP

August 29, 2007, Greenland: The surface of an iceberg lit by the sun as it sets over Jacobshavn Bay near the town of Ilulissat Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

July 31, 2006, Greenland: Melting water streams from an iceberg calved from Ilulissat Kangerlua Glacier Photograph: Paul Souders/Corbis

August 28, 2007, Greenland: An aerial view of the Greenlandic Icecap near Ilulissat Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

August 28, 2007, Greenland: Melted water runs over the Greenlandic Icecap east of the town of Ilulissat Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

September 01, 2007, Greenland: Ice boulders left behind after a flood caused by the overflowing of a lake, east of the town of Kangerlussuaq Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty