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Alexandra Land, Cleaning-up Activities, Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic National Park Russia in 2009 declared the High Arctic archipelago Franz Josef Land, including a former nature reserve in the same area as well as the Northern part of Novaya Zemlya, as "Russian Arctic National Park". Its total area is...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20 UNEP Pavilion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Victoria Regia, Victoria amazonica, Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Driftwood, Lena Delta, Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia Driftwood, both logs and whole trees, float down the Lena every year. They accumulate ashore the various river arms or make it to the sea, where they could drift with the sea ice towards Svalbard and Greenland. - The Len...

By Peter Prokosch

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopot...

By Peter Prokosch

Landscape with little forests left, South-West Madagascar Madagascar is among the world's poorest countries. As such, people's day-to-day survival is dependent upon natural resource use. They must live off the land that surrounds them, making use of whatever resources they can...

By Peter Prokosch

Rift Valley, North of Masai Mara, Kenya A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. This action is manifest as crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface which is sub...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier ice, 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 ...

By Peter Prokosch

Pale-faced Sheathbill (Chionis alba) Sheathbills (with their two species) are the only bird family with a breeding range that falls entirely within the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic. In this harsh environment, with an avifauna dominated by seabirds, they are ...

By Peter Prokosch

Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Beside the bivalve Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica, remains of cold water coral reefs...

By Peter Prokosch

Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Among two species of mussels remains of cold water coral reefs are found here. Lophelia pe...

By Peter Prokosch

Inquisitive Polar bear on the pack ice, Svalbard Svalbard's polar bears belong to the Barents Sea population, one of 19 different polar bear populations recognised by scientists. Svalbard's population, estimated in the several thousands, is the only one not hunted with...

By Bjorn Alfthan

The Wet Forest National Park at Batumi, Georgia The wet forest national park at batumi, georgia, caucasus was inaugurated in 2007.

By Peter Prokosch

Rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia The search for minerals and the subsequent road constructions are often the first steps for major deforestation as is occurring here in the province of Riau/Sumatra, Indonesia.

By Peter Prokosch

Svalbard Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus, grazing on icy ground, Longyearbyen Reindeer have a circumpolar distribution with several subspecies in different areas. The Svalbard reindeer is a small subspecies of Rangifer tarandus. The subspecies found in Svalbard is exclusive to this area. Reindeer ...

By Peter Prokosch

Autumn birch forest in the mountains of Southern Norway Norway's geography is to a large part dominated by mountain ranges. Birch is usually the dominant species in northern areas of the Middle Boreal vegetation zone.

By Peter Prokosch

Well-managed tourists in Magdalena Fjord, Spitzbergen Magdalena Fjord in North-west Spitsbergen, with its graves of Dutch whalers, is one of the most visited sites by tourist coming to Svalbard. And yet it is well managed. - WWF once facilitated a process of developing Arct...

By Peter Prokosch

Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea), Lena Delta, Siberia, Russia The Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) breeds in the high arctic of northernmost North America, and northeast Siberia. It migrates only short distances south in autumn, most of the population wintering in northern latitude...

By Peter Prokosch

Purple Saxifrage, Canada Purple Saxifrage is an edible plant found all over the Arctic region and also in mountainous areas of England and America up to 3,800m. It mostly thrives in shady, moist environments and is well adapted to extreme wind c...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic vegetation, Norway In 2008 the United Nations Environment Program expressed extreme concern for the implications of climate change on the Arctic regions. A warming Arctic climate is projected to cause various consequences such as melting s...

By Lawrence Hislop

Halibut fishing, Uummannaq, Greenland Dog sleds, snowmobiles and cars can be found on the sea ice around Uummannaq, where traditional practice meets modernity in the name of fishing.

By Lawrence Hislop

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