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Polar bear, Svalbard 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 condit...

By Peter Prokosch

Male and female Polar bear feeding on a seal, pack ice North of Svalbard 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 condit...

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 condit...

By Peter Prokosch

Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica,) feeding at Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway The Red Knot is a migratory shorebird that travels up to 20,000 km twice a year from its breeding grounds on the high Arctic tundra to its southern non-breeding sites. Along with having one of the longest total migration...

By Peter Prokosch

Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus,) Porsanger Fjord The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It appears in Northern Norway (here at a breeding site at the Porsanger fjord) when in May the lake ice is opening. ...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica,) feeding at Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway Of the six subspecies of Red Knot, one is now stable, four are in decline, and the trend in the sixth population is unclear. These declines can be attributed to the loss of important feeding areas and food sources along ...

By Peter Prokosch

Dark-bellied brent geese (branta b. bernicla,) Langeness, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park The Dark-bellied Brent Geese breeds during the short Arctic summer on the northernmost coast and offshore islands of the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia/Russian Federation. It winters along the coasts of South-...

By Peter Prokosch

Migrating Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica,) German Wadden Sea Birds are certainly the most known representatives of migratory species and fascinating in their incredible flight strategies. They attract millions of birdwatchers and eco-tourists all over the world. Approximately 1,80...

By Peter Prokosch

Brent geese (Branta b. bernicla,) Langeness, Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsten Wadden Sea The Dark-bellied Brent Geese breeds during the short Arctic summer on the northernmost coast and offshore islands of the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia/Russian Federation. It winters along the coasts of South-...

By Peter Prokosch

Himalaya mountain top The warming trend in the Himalayas is higher than the global average – a cause for grave concern. The Himalayas, with the greatest concentration of ice outside the polar regions (and hence dubbed ‘the third pole’...

By Lawrence Hislop

Himalayas and township The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region is highly dynamic as there are many socioeconomic and environmental drivers of change at play, including climate change. The impacts of these changes challenge the resilience...

By Lawrence Hislop

Nepalese township Climate change is believed to contribute to extreme weather events and possibly to increase the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards and associated disasters, exacting high economic and social costs. Recent...

By Lawrence Hislop

Flag and Himalayas Averaged over their entire areas, within the period 1960– 2003 glaciers in Patagonia and Alaska have thinned by approximately 35 m and 25 m, respectively, whereas high mountain glaciers in Asia have thinned by over 10...

By Lawrence Hislop

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