Da Vinci sketch recreated on melting Arctic ice - big picture | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man has been recreated by an artist in the Arctic to highlight melting ice. John Quigley, who travelled on a Greenpeace icebreaker to create the copper artwork in the Fram Strait, between Greenland and Norwegian Svalbard, said: 'We created the Melting Vitruvian Man because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation'. This September could mark the lowest sea ice minimum on record

Experts drill deep into Arctic ice for clues to climate change | Video | Reuters.com

I'm standing just 500 miles, that's 800 km from the North Pole and the ice that I am standing on might not be here within as little as 5 years