Marty’s photo of the day #5110: I shot this photo of the Bear Glacier in 2002, while traveling in Canada for my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. Now the glacier has melted into a fraction of what it once was. Some photos I’ve seen show that the ice doesn’t even […]
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Bear Glacier, 20 years ago
Marty’s photos of the day #4576: This is the Bear Glacier in British Columbia. I use a different picture of this glacier in my college show, Around the World in 90 Minutes, to talk about climate change (that lake wasn’t there 75 years ago). Deb and I had planned on visiting the Bear Glacier again […]
The melty glacier, with text for Republicans
Marty’s photo of the day #2346: This is the Bear Glacier in British Columbia. The lake at the toe of the glacier is Strohn Lake, which didn’t exist until the 1940s. I took this picture in 2002, and I’m shocked by the recent pictures of the melting glacier visitors have posted on the Internet. It’s […]


