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  • > Melting ice floe floating in front of an iceberg, Arctic

    Melting ice floe floating in front of an iceberg, Arctic

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Turquoise meltpool beside pressure ridge in the polar pack ice, Arctic Ocean

    Turquoise meltpool beside pressure ridge in the polar pack ice, Arctic Ocean

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Area of Greenland icecap where two glaciers join and flow to the sea

    Area of Greenland icecap where two glaciers join and flow to the sea

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Washed away ice shelf, Ellesmere Island

    Washed away ice shelf, Ellesmere Island

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Winter landscape in Norway, with frozen sea ice at the coast

    Winter landscape in Norway, with frozen sea ice at the coast

    © Orsolya Haarberg / naturepl.com

  • > Ice floes as sea ice breaks up in summer off the coast of Greenland

    Ice floes as sea ice breaks up in summer off the coast of Greenland

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Broken pack ice floating on the sea, Arctic

    Broken pack ice floating on the sea, Arctic

    © Andy Rouse / naturepl.com

  • > Ice Floe, Magdalen Islands, Canada

    Ice Floe, Magdalen Islands, Canada

    © M. Watson / www.ardea.com

  • > Columbia Glacier, Alaska

    Columbia Glacier, Alaska

    © B. L. Sage / www.ardea.com

  • > Ice pack in Greenland, with ice melting

    Ice pack in Greenland, with ice melting

    © M. Watson / www.ardea.com

  • > Grounded Arctic iceberg, with grooves caused by air bubbles eroding ice

    Grounded Arctic iceberg, with grooves caused by air bubbles eroding ice

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Sea ice forming at sunset, Arctic

    Sea ice forming at sunset, Arctic

    © Orsolya Haarberg / naturepl.com

  • > Newly formed sea ice in winter with ice flowers in the Arctic, extrusions of frozen salt formed as the water freezes

    Newly formed sea ice in winter with ice flowers in the Arctic, extrusions of frozen salt formed as the water freezes

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Melting ice at floe edge, Arctic Bay, Canada

    Melting ice at floe edge, Arctic Bay, Canada

    © Eric Baccega / naturepl.com

  • > Small avalanche tracks down the walls of a valley glacier in the Arctic summer

    Small avalanche tracks down the walls of a valley glacier in the Arctic summer

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Kenamu river flowing through boreal forest shortly before freeze, Canada

    Kenamu river flowing through boreal forest shortly before freeze, Canada

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Winter landscape with snow covered trees in forest, Lapland

    Winter landscape with snow covered trees in forest, Lapland

    © Orsolya Haarberg / naturepl.com

  • > Patches of bare tundra visible through snow as Spring thaw begins in Greenland

    Patches of bare tundra visible through snow as Spring thaw begins in Greenland

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Arctic tundra with pockets of snow remaining throughout the summer in ravines in the Russian Arctic

    Arctic tundra with pockets of snow remaining throughout the summer in ravines in the Russian Arctic

    © Andrey Zvoznikov / www.ardea.com

  • > Autumn tundra, Siberia

    Autumn tundra, Siberia

    © B. & C. Alexander / naturepl.com

  • > Canadian tundra in winter

    Canadian tundra in winter

    © M. Watson / www.ardea.com

  • > Midnight sun light over icepack and cliffs in spring, Arctic Bay, Canada

    Midnight sun light over icepack and cliffs in spring, Arctic Bay, Canada

    © Eric Baccega / naturepl.com

  • > Northern lights, <i>aurora borealis</i>, above Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon in Iceland

    Northern lights, aurora borealis, above Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon in Iceland

    © Juan Carlos Muñoz / naturepl.com

  • > Snow avalanche falling into sea, Greenland

    Snow avalanche falling into sea, Greenland

    © Uri Golman / naturepl.com

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