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Climate Change and Ice

Climate change, Meltwater pours off an iceberg passing a hole as chains of droplets. Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland. 2005

Melting ice floe floats in front of an iceberg off the coast of Ellesmere Island. Nunavut. Canadian Arctic. 2002

Open water and melting ice floes off the coast of Saunders Island in the summer. Thule. Northwest Greenland. 1997

Small iceberg and thawing sea ice at the mouth to Brepollen Fiord, Hornsund Fiord, snow still covers the mountains. Spitsbergen.

Shorefast ice in Wahlenberg Fiord, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway

Fogbow over the thawing sea ice in the summer. Chukchi Sea / Arctic Ocean. Siberia. 1997

A trio of emperor penguins, Aptenodytes forsteri, returns from a foraging trip to their nesting colony at Drescher Inlet, 72 degrees South, Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Late evening sun shines through a piece of glacial ice with icicles on the shore of Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Icicles hang from the edge of a small blue iceberg as the summer thaw sets in. Antarctica

Thawing slabs of sea ice in summer. blue with icicles. Northwest Greenland. 1980

Melting Iceberg showing the portion underwater that is sculpted by the sea. Polar regions. Digital composite.

Icicles hang off a melting iceberg near Siorapaluk. Northwest Greenland. 1977

Inuit hunter Jakob jumps a lead in summer sea ice. His huskies will follow. Qeqertat, NW Greenland. 1980

Inuit hunter, Kavavow Kiguktak, jumps from one ice floe to another. Ellesmere Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Inuit hunters travelling by snowmobile across wet sea ice during the summer thaw. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Well eroded small iceberg, frozen into the sea ice at Snow Hill Island. Antarctica.

Sea ice thawing in Austre Burgerbukta, You can see the holes in the pools on the ice that go right through to sea. Hornsund. Svalbard

Altocumulus reflected in almost ice free high arctic waters

As the lake ice thaws on Isdammen, it degrades into candle ice, some remain upright, others fall over into the water. Longyearbyen. Spitsbergen.

As the lake ice thaws on Isdammen, it degrades into candle ice, and blows onshore, where the candles glisten like jewels. Longyearbyen. Spitsbergen.

Icicles and a meltpool form on a thawing iceberg off the coast on Northwest Greenland. 1980

A small iceberg is calved from the tidewater edge of the Fortuna Glacier. South Georgia. Sub Antarctica

Receding icecap and glaciers on the coast of orthwest Greenland. 2008

The setting sun highlights a piece of glacial ice with icicles on the shore of Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Early snow dusts a retreating glacier that was once a tidewater glacier. Ų Fjord. Scoresbysund. East Greenland

Ice falls from the face of a glacier in Palanderbukta, Nordaustlandet. Svalbard.

Drygalski Glacier, which has receded 300 metres between Nov 2008 and Nov 2009. South Georgia. Sub Antarctic

Inuit hunter with dog sled on melting sea-ice in Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 1980

Pack ice and thaw, Beaufort Sea, Arctic Canada

Part of the massive iceberg B15, at this time it was 90 miles long and close to Ross Is. Antarctica