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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Thawing sea ice on Baffin Bay, near Clyde River. Due to global warming, the sea is melting earlier each year, wreaking havoc on Inuit hunting methods, as well as the life cycles of most Arctic wildlife.
    BI 6832.jpg
  • POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus) on small ice floe in Arctic Ocean north of Franz Josef Land, Russia. With global warming reducing polar ice, these animals are becoming endangered.
    NP 1934.jpg
  • A Polar Bear drifts on ever-shrinking ice cause by global warming.
    NP 1946.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reach their northernmost intersection with the tundra.  These spruce and birch trees are only able to grow so far north because of warming influences of the gulf stream current in the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070425-167.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reach their northernmost intersection with the tundra.  These spruce and birch trees are only able to grow so far north because of warming influences of the gulf stream current in the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070425-133.jpg
  • Grinnel Glacier retreats above lake it completely covered in 1938.
    MT 2526.jpg
  • NUNAVUT, Canada. Mountains & frozen fjord on Baffin Island, north of Arctic Circle.
    BI 8138.jpg
  • An Inuit hunter pokes his harpoon at an iceberg frozen into the sea ice of Baffin Bay, west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.  This source of remarkably pure water has drifted in from the rapidly melting icecap of Greenland.
    BI 2835.jpg
  • Inuit hunter Jayko Apak jumps open water on Canada's frozen Baffin Bay in search of seal's breathing hole.
    BI 1819.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada, Inuit hunters Laimake Palluq & Jayko Apak study fish beside a seal breathing hole on frozen Baffin Bay.
    BI 2814.jpg
  • Snowmobile-bourne tourists watch a polar bear cross frozen Baffin Bay north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 0949.jpg
  • Sunset over Antarctic Peninsula near Adelaide Island & Danco Coast.
    AG 3973.jpg
  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
    BI 1759a.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
    RUe 070425-120.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-420.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-407.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-394.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-318.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-316.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-303.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-299.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-275.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-267.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The foreground rocks are Damoy Point on Wiencke Island and the mountains are on Anvers Island.
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  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-758.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The National Geographic Endeavor is anchored in the background, adjacent to Wiencke Island.  Anvers Island is on the left.
    ATe 080222-753.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-729.jpg
  • An iceberg floats off the Antarctic Peninsula, near the Antarctic Circle , Antarctica.
    ATe 080220-048.jpg
  • SPITSBERGEN, Svalbard, Norway. Icicles that suggest Svalbard archipeligo's name ("frozen coast") hang off cliff above ice-choked Isfjorden, near Longyearbyen.
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  • SPITSBERGEN, Svalbard, Norway. Polar expeditioneer under glacier cliffs at Inglefield Bay on island's east coast.
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  • DOGSLEDDING, International Arctic Project. Team led by Will Steger (MR) threads between pressure ridges on frozen Arctic Ocean shortly after leaving Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, en route to Canada via the North Pole. Air temperature is -40 degrees.
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  • Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1943.jpg
  • The Grinnell Glacier retreats above a lake it completely covered in 1938.
    MT 2527.jpg
  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile. Southern beech forests and "Lago Verde" below glacier draining highest mountains of this previously unexplored range.
    CE 3825.jpg
  • NUNAVUT, Canada. Unnamed cliffs tower above frozen Quernbiter Fjord on northern Baffin Island, north of Arctic Circle.
    BI 7950.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Sunset on fjord & mountains south of Clyde River hamlet.
    BI 7525.jpg
  • The midnight sun circles over frozen Eclipse Sound north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 0383.jpg
  • ARCTIC CANADA. Inuit mother prepares seal skin with Ulu knife, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island
    BI 0212.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Iceberg in Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula (background)
    AT 1853.jpg
  • A retreating glacier front descends from the Annapurna Massif near Manang, Nepal.
    AN 2720.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Icebergs in South Pacific Ocean, off Antarctic Peninsula.
    AM 1723.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Icebergs and pack ice in southern ocean below mountains and glaciers of Antarctic Peninsula.
    AG 3770.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Icebergs and pack ice in southern ocean below mountains and glaciers of Antarctic Peninsula.
    AG 3735.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA.  Icebergs near Elephant Island, South Atlantic Ocean.
    AC 0435.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a river winds through taiga forests and seemingly infinite ponds and bogs of the adjacent tundra, which is melting free of its winter snow.
    RUe 070425-121.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
    RUe 070425-112.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-433-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-426-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-419.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-397.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-352-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-351-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-341.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-314.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-309.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-278.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-268.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-261.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The National Geographic Endeavor is anchored in the background, adjacent to Wiencke Island.
    ATe 080222-780.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The National Geographic Endeavor is anchored in the background, adjacent to Wiencke Island.
    ATe 080222-774.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The foreground rocks are Damoy Point on Wiencke Island and the mountains are on Anvers Island.
    ATe 080222-769.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-749.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The foreground rocks are Damoy Point on Wiencke Island and the mountains are on Anvers Island.
    ATe 080222-746.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-744.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Background mountains are on Anvers Island.
    ATe 080222-736.jpg
  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Background mountains are on Anvers Island.
    ATe 080222-734.jpg
  • Icebergs float in the Neumayer Channel below mountains on Anvers Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-319.jpg
  • Icebergs float in the Neumayer Channel below mountains on Anvers Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-317.jpg
  • Icebergs float in the Neumayer Channel below mountains on Anvers Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080222-315.jpg
  • An avalanche crashes from a hanging glacier above Neko Harbor, Antarctica.
    ATe 080219-213.jpg
  • Midnight sun over melting pack ice in Isfjorden ("Ice Fjord").
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  • A walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) sleeps on an ice floe near Spitsbergen Island.
    SV 6734.jpg
  • WALRUS (Odobenus rosmarus) on ice floe in  Bellsund Fjord, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway
    SV 6731.jpg
  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT DOGSLED EXPEDITION. Will Steger mushes his dogs on frozen Arctic Ocean nearTuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada.
    ST 4375.jpg
  • Franklin Bay, Beaufort. A dogsled team threads through pressure ridges.
    ST 3544.jpg
  • Baruntse Peak rises above the Imja Glacier in the Khumbu region of Nepal, as viewed from Island Peak
    S 0320.jpg
  • Large ice floes drift past the edge of a land-fast ice shelf.
    QM 3044.jpg
  • The sun glints off melting sea ice near Ellesmere Island.
    NW 1513.jpg
  • Midnight sun skims the horizon over icebergs floating in the Arctic Ocean, north of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.
    NP 1507.jpg
  • BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. Bugaboo Glacier flows around the Hound's Tooth in Purcell Mountains, Bugaboo Provincial Park.
    BC 0466.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Crevasses and calving seracs on coastal glacier, Anvers Island, South Shetland Islands.
    AT 3075.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Glacier and icebergs, Paradise Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
    AT 2248.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Icebergs in southern Pacific Ocean off Antarctic Peninsula, near Hope Bay.
    AT 1048.jpg
  • A retreating glacier front descends from the Annapurna Massif near Manang, Nepal.
    AN 2719.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineering. Mike McDowell (MR) atop 15,292' (4661m) Mount Shinn, third highest peak on continent. (Ellsworth Mountains)
    AG 2449.jpg