What It Takes To Transport 112 Tons Of Arctic Ice Over 2,000 Miles

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Gizmodo
Sat, 10/25/2014 - 9:00am

You've seen the pictures. The time lapses of glaciers shrinking into patchworks of white, the videos of ice crumbling into the ocean. But the Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson wants you to really see how quickly the ice is melting—and to do so, he and a Greenlandic geologist fished 112 tons of ice out of a Greenland fjord and shipped it to Copenhagen.

Topics: icelandic olafur eliasson greenlandic copenhagen greenland tons

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What It Takes To Transport 112 Tons Of Arctic Ice Over 2,000 Miles

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