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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), Svalbard, Norway In May 2008 the Polar Bear was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. The most recognised threat to Polar Bears is ecological change as a result of global warming. Polar Bears live ac...

By Peter Prokosch

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) perched beside the ice, Svalbard, Norway With the difficulty to find food comes the difficulty to conceive. Between 1981 and 1998 it was observed that the average weight and number of Polar Bear cubs born dropped by 15%.

By Peter Prokosch

Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) feeding on a seal, Svalbard, Norway Where seals are not available or sea ice is absent, Polar Bears will retreat to land and eat other marine mammals, reindeer, rodents, sea birds, ducks, fish and berries or scavenge on carcasses or garbage from humans.

By Peter Prokosch

Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus), Svalbard, Norway Polar Bears live across Northern Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Norway, numbering around 22,000 bears. They depend on sea-ice to hunt and breed. As sea ice recedes further and further from the coastline, Polar Bea...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice North of Svalbard Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

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...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice, Svalbard Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Mouth, Krossfjorden, Svalbard Krossfjorden lies within the Spitsbergen National Park in the Svalbard archipelago. The mountain formations in this area represent different geological periods and the site is recognized as an important monitoring statio...

By Peter Prokosch

Krossfjorden, Svalbard The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA 2004) predicts an average 5-7 degree rise in temperature in Arctic regions by the year 2100. Krossfjorden is on the West coast of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelagio, and...

By Peter Prokosch

Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen Krossfjorden lies within the Spitsbergen National Park in the Svalbard archipelago. The mountain formations in this area represent different geological periods and the site is recognized as an important monitoring statio...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Mouth, Spitzbergen Spitsbergen is an area strongly influenced by the warm North Atlantic current bringing heat and moisture into the Arctic. Agreat majority of Svalbard is glacier-covered. Glaciers supply water to the largest rivers, disc...

By Peter Prokosch

Geyser at Geysir, Iceland Geysers are named after this site, Geysir, a famous tourism attraction in Iceland. They are a type of hot spring and occur only under specific conditions where water boiling deep down in a series of tubes in the ground c...

By Peter Prokosch

Walrus (Odobenus Rosmarus), Svalbard Both male and female walrus possess the same impressive and distinctive tusks, which can grow up to 1m long. A male Walrus can weigh up to 1500kg and stretch 3.5m in length. Around Svalbard, Walruses reside year-round a...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus), Svalbard Polar Bears do most of their hunting on the sea ice. They feed almost exclusively on ice-living Ringed or Bearded Seals and the ice sheets under which these seals live and the Bears must follow the ice as it retreats int...

By Peter Prokosch

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), Svalbard The Polar Bears occupying the area between Spitsbergen and the Russian Archipelago are referred to as the Barents Sea population and are estimated to make up over 3,000 bears. They are long-lived mammals with low reprodu...

By Peter Prokosch

Dogs on sea ice, Greenland Dog sledding is a mode of transport and a tradition dating back as far as the 10th Century in Greenland. Sled dog teams are usually made up of between 12-15 strong dogs.

By Lawrence Hislop

Dog sled team on sea ice Traditional dog sledding near Uummannaq, Greenland in May 2009. The image demonstrates the possibility to travel over sea ice during spring/summer 2009. Recent comparison can be made to the total lack of sea ice througho...

By Lawrence Hislop

Dog sledding on sea ice, Greenland The small island of Uummannaq lies on the west coast of Greenland, where more than 80% of the land is covered by an ice cap that is in places, up to 4km thick. Local Inuit residents rely very strongly on traditional hunt...

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing hole in the ice, Greenland The small island of Uummannaq lies on the West coast of Greenland, where more than 80% of the land is covered by an ice cap that is in places, up to 4km thick. Local Inuit residents hunt and fish from the sea ice, or tra...

By Lawrence Hislop

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