"When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes" - R.E.M.

The below image is of Norway's largest ice cap, the Austfonna ice cap, located  on the island of Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago. At over 3,000 square miles, it is by far the largest ice cap in Svalbard and one of the largest in the Arctic.  This amazing photo shows the ice cap seemingly crying a river of tears as it melts into the Artic Ocean.

According to Jon Ove Hagen, a member of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) and professor in geosciences at Oslo University, Norway - who has been studying the Austfonna ice-shelf since 1988, "retreat of glacier fronts at Austfonna over a 12-year period average a frontal retreat of about 160 feet-per-year. The ice cap is losing about 1.6 cubic miles of ice every year."  Read more about this melting glacier cap HERE.  

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