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  • Ice free Arctic Ocean in 2012 when ice cover reached record minimum, view East from Prudhoe Bay. Ice free Arctic Ocean in 2012 when ice cover reached record minimum, view East from Prudhoe Bay.
  • Midnight sun across ice free Arctic Ocean, Barrow Alaska. The Northwest Passage is becoming ice free in late summers. Midnight sun across ice free Arctic Ocean, Barrow Alaska. The Northwest Passage is becoming ice free in late summers.
  • Barrow, Alaska, midnight sun view down street to nearly ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low. Barrow, Alaska, midnight sun view down street to nearly ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low.
  • Barrow, Alaska, midnight sun view down street to nearly ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low. Barrow, Alaska, midnight sun view down street to nearly ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low.
  • Barrow, Alaska, and ice free Arctic Ocean, early Oct 2012, when sea ice reached record low. Barrow, Alaska, and ice free Arctic Ocean, early Oct 2012, when sea ice reached record low.
  • Barrow, Alaska, and ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low Barrow, Alaska, and ice free Arctic Ocean, early Aug 2012, when sea ice reached record low
  • Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw. Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw.
  • Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw. Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw.
  • Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw. Native village Shishmaref, Alaska, on narrow spit along Bering Sea Coast, Alaska, subject to increasing erosion from reduced ice, permafrost thaw.
  • Tony Weyiouanna Sr. in his boat out where his village of Shishmaref Alaska was in his youth. Erosion is up to 60 feet a year. Tony Weyiouanna Sr. in his boat out where his village of Shishmaref Alaska was in his youth. Erosion is up to 60 feet a year.
  • Native Inupiat village of Kivalina, on the Bering Sea in NW Alaska, is one of several hundred villages threatened by rising sea level and permafrost thaw. Native Inupiat village of Kivalina, on the Bering Sea in NW Alaska, is one of several hundred villages threatened by rising sea level and permafrost thaw.
  • Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, and its Baffin Island landscape is increasingly ice free and with thawing permafrost. Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, and its Baffin Island landscape is increasingly ice free and with thawing permafrost.
  • Just above Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, erosion from melting ice and thermokarsting of permafrost is starting to erode a hillside. Baffin Island. Just above Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, erosion from melting ice and thermokarsting of permafrost is starting to erode a hillside. Baffin Island.
  • View along fjord shore of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada where warming climate has left little ice on Baffin Is. mountains and increased landslides. View along fjord shore of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada where warming climate has left little ice on Baffin Is. mountains and increased landslides.
  • Elders in Pangnirtung, Canada, Baffin I., report more wind, more clouds and rain than when they were younger, as signs of global warming. Elders in Pangnirtung, Canada, Baffin I., report more wind, more clouds and rain than when they were younger, as signs of global warming.
  • Elisapee Ishulutaq, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, says “All the mountains were covered with glaciers.” “There isn’t any deep snow anymore.” Elisapee Ishulutaq, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada, says “All the mountains were covered with glaciers.” “There isn’t any deep snow anymore.”
  • Polar bear on dry land during time of low sea ice, August 2002, near Barrow Alaska. Bears are Threatened Species due to climate change. Polar bear on dry land during time of low sea ice, August 2002, near Barrow Alaska. Bears are Threatened Species due to climate change.
  • Bay Ice-choked Fenris Bay from faster discharge of glaciers 65 Degrees North, East Greenland. See Glaciers. Bay Ice-choked Fenris Bay from faster discharge of glaciers 65 Degrees North, East Greenland. See Glaciers.
  • Huge icebergs calve from Jacobshavn Isbrae (Glacier) West Greenland. This glacier is accelerating, now flowing more than 7 miles each year. See Glaciers. Huge icebergs calve from Jacobshavn Isbrae (Glacier) West Greenland. This glacier is accelerating, now flowing more than 7 miles each year. See Glaciers.
  • Receding glacier in the southern nart of Greenland and its fjord, Near Nuuk, Greenland. Low aerial from NASA aircraft. Receding glacier in the southern part of Greenland and its fjord, Near Nuuk, Greenland. Low aerial from NASA aircraft.
  • local hunters. Local hunters return from out in the broken Arctic Sea ice, August 2001 (note spear in bow of boat).
  • The cemetary at Kaktovik. The cemetary at Kaktovik, native village on Barter Island, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Alaska, shows signs of thawing of the permafrost, with thermokarsting and surface water. Summer 2001.
  • rainbow Double rainbow and its reflection refracting again in atmosphere above Arctic Ocean off Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, showing loss of sea ice in July. Image made from Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
  • Thawing, collapsing edge of tundra Thawing, collapsing edge of tundra at the Arctic Ocean, Barter Island, Alaska, showing thin active soil layer and thawing permafrost beneath.
  • erosion Shishmaref Alaska shore erodes due to loss of sea ice, increasing wave erosion, and thawing of permafrost within the dune cliffs. Native traditional seal meat drying and modern oil tanks are threatened alike.