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Iceberg, Ilulissat Icefjord
Jakobshavn Glacier in the Ilulissat Icefjord holds the record as Greenland's fastest moving glacier and is a major contributor to the mass balance of the continental ice sheet. According to NASA scientists, Jakobshavn is the single largest contributor to sea level rise in the Northern Hemisphere ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Burning rainforest on Sumatra to make space for palm oil plantations, Indonesia
Large areas of Indonesia's rainforests have been converted to oil palm plantations, driven by rising global demand for the cheap vegetable oil popular with food manufacturers and as a renewable fuel (biofuel). Palm oil and palm kernel oil now make up one of the largest shares of global vegetable ...
By Peter Prokosch
Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes Weddellii), Antarctic Peninsula
The Weddell Seal is the world's southern-most breeding mammal, and widespread in the southern hemisphere. They are found on fast ice (that is, sea ice that has frozen along coasts) right up to Antarctica and also occur on off-shore pack ice.
By Peter Prokosch
Red Panda (Ailurus fulgenst)
The red panda photograph has been taken in a bamboo-rich forest at a level of about 3,500 m above sea level in the Sargamarta (Mount Everest) national park in Nepal. The red panda can be seen as a well-known (but rarly seen in the wild) "flag-ship species" for the eastern Himalya. It has been c ...
By Peter Prokosch
South Norwegian spruce forest
By Peter Prokosch
High class cruise tourism, Magdalenefjord, Spitzbergen, Svalbard
WWF once facilitated a process of developing Arctic guidelines for tourists and tour companies. Representatives from local communities, governments, different sectors of the tourism industry, conservation organisations and scientific institutions used their experience to create ten principles an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place on Earth. It is also the driest, because it has receives about an average of 50mm of precipitation in the form of snow a year, which is about the same as what hot deserts receive in rain. There is, however, ice covering 98 percent of Antarctica, ...
By Peter Prokosch
Iceberg in Disco Bay, Greenland
The Ilulissat Icefjord in Disco Bay is one of the World's fastest flowing glaciers and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is located 250km North of the Arctic Circle and it accounts for 10% of the production of Greenland's calf ice. The Icebergs from the Ilulissat Icefjord are the largest to be fo ...
By Peter Prokosch
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) feeding in midnight sun, Svalbard
The largest animal on the Earth is the Blue Whale. Their hearts can weigh as much as a car and yet they eat only krill, a tiny shrimp-like animal, which they filter out from gulps of water through plates of tough baleen.
By Peter Prokosch
Antarctic Peninsula
Unlike the Arctic, which at its centre is an ocean, Antarctica is a landmass that is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. A permanent, massive ice sheet on Antarctica covers 98% of the continent and is containing the major freshwater reserves of the globe. Moving permanently towards the coasts, the ...
By Peter Prokosch
polar bear swimming
More than any other animal, the polar bear, Ursus maritimus, is recognized as the symbol of the Arctic. With white fur and a sub-skin blubber providing insulation, the polar bear has adapted to live in severe cold conditions. The polar bear finds the majority of its prey on the sea ice – mostly ...
By Peter Prokosch
Mountain pine and spruce forest in winter, Hillestadheia, Norway
Here in the mountains of Southern Norway at about 800m above sea level harsh winter conditions determine the limits where trees are still able to grow.
By Peter Prokosch
Adelie Penguin (Pygoscelis Adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula
Adélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent. Adélies are shallow divers feeding mainly on krill and other euphausiids. T ...
By Peter Prokosch
Antarctic Peninsula
In general, a glacier is formed and maintained by a cycle of snow falling at high altitudes, melt occurring at lower altitudes and or discharge into the sea. Glaciers are particularly susceptible to climate change and are therefore important indicators of global climate - as the temperature war ...
By Peter Prokosch
Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Beringianus) fishing for Salmon
By Peter Prokosch
Iceberg, Svalbard
Svalbard is a small archipelago whose climate is influenced by two sources of surface ocean water: (a) The West Spitsbergen Current, moving warm water along the West Coast; (b) East Greenland Current, bringing cold water and pack ice Southeastwards. This ice on the East Spitsbergen Current melts ...
By Peter Prokosch
Lilac Breasted Roller Bird (Coracias caudata), Zambia
Kenya's National Bird, The Lilac Breasted Roller Bird gets its name from the impressive aerial acrobatics it performs as part of courtship. They are found in grasslands and open woods across Africa, feed directly off the ground and are highly territorial.
By Yannick Beaudoin
Sinking seawall
As higher storm surges reach shore, Shishmaref is shrinking by around 3m every year. The man-made protective sea wall seen here has done little to help. The villagers of Shishmaref are facing relocation, which is estimated to be a job that will cost over 1 million dollars.
By Lawrence Hislop
Puppies for future dog sledding, Greenland
These puppies will become working dogs, dragging traditional sleds across sea ice, transporting Inuit locals to various hunting and fishing areas. These robust dogs live outdoors all year round and are considered to be more reliable that the modern snow-scooters that are now available.
By Lawrence Hislop
Rhododendron Forest in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal
Including the highest point on the Earth’s Surface, Mount Sagarmatha (Everest; 8,848 m) and an elevation range of 6,000 m Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) covers an area of 124,400 hectares in the Solu-Khumbu district of Nepal. An exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers, deep valleys an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird (Nectarinia chalybea), Botanical Garden, Cape Town, SA
The sunbirds are the African counterparts of the hummingbirds of the Americas. They are only distantly related, but as hummingbirds largely feed on nectar. They are distributed with 132 different species throughout Africa. The Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird is endemic to South Africa.
By Peter Prokosch
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