![An iceberg carved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in south-west Greenland in this undated handout photograph released on September 20, 2006. [Konrad Steffen/University of Colorado/Handout/Reuters]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081006/000cf1a487730a53fd8b21.jpg "An iceberg carved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in south-west Greenland in this undated handout photograph released on September 20, 2006. [Konrad Steffen/University of Colorado/Handout/Reuters]") |
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An iceberg carved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in south-west Greenland in this undated handout photograph released on September 20, 2006. [Konrad Steffen/University of Colorado/Handout/Reuters]
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![A boat on Ilulissat fjord, on the western coast of Greenland. Flying low over the vast, white expanse of the glacier, one of the biggest and most active in the world, the effects of global warming in the Arctic are painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarming rate. [Steen Ulrik Johannessen/AFP]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081006/000cf1a487730a53fd1220.jpg "A boat on Ilulissat fjord, on the western coast of Greenland. Flying low over the vast, white expanse of the glacier, one of the biggest and most active in the world, the effects of global warming in the Arctic are painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarming rate. [Steen Ulrik Johannessen/AFP]") |
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A boat on Ilulissat fjord, on the western coast of Greenland. Flying low over the vast, white expanse of the glacier, one of the biggest and most active in the world, the effects of global warming in the Arctic are painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarming rate. [Steen Ulrik Johannessen/AFP]
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Europe's largest glacier is located in Iceland, and is melting fast due to rising temperatures and reduced snow fall.
Scientists say the glacier is now melting at a rate of one meter a year, and climate change is likely to quicken the pace even more.
This means sea levels will rise with catastrophic effects all over the globe. And people in vulnerable low-lying areas will have to move to higher ground to evade the rising waters.
(CCTV October 6, 2008)
