"Black glacier" in Greenland

"Black glacier" in Greenland

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Teruo Aoki, laboratory head at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency, a member of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole, examines a glacier which looks black in Qaanaaq, Greenland, on July 20, 2012.

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