eARTh Abstraction: Breakup of Arctic Sea

Breakup of Arctic sea ice in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland, as seen through the clouds from a commercial airliner on June 3, 2015. (Photo: ©Tom Yulsman) If you have followed this blog with any regularity you may have noticed that I haven't posted anything for awhile. I was on vacation in Europe and decided to take a break from blogging while I was gone. Now that I'm back, I thought I'd share some iPhone photographs of Arctic sea ice I shot while on the way back from Poland to Denver, via Frankfurt. There's a bit of a news peg, since the extent of Arctic sea ice in May was the third lowest in the satellite record, which extends back to 1978. As the National Snow and Ice Data Center put it recently: