Antarctica: An emperor penguin prepares to jump over a crack in the Riiser-Larsenisen ice shelf.Photograph: Wolfgang Kaehler/CorbisArgentina:Ice falls from the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia. Studies suggest that the melting of glaciers in the Patagonian ice fields of southern Argentina and Chile has doubled in recent years, caused by higher temperatures and lower snowfall.Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/APArctic Circle: A group of polar bears on an ice pack at sunset.Photograph: Kennan Ward/Corbis
Greenland: An Inuit hunter uses his harpoon to cut ice from an iceberg for drinking water.Photograph: Chris Anderson/GettyIceland: Icebergs carved by the Vatnajokull glacier are left behind as it retreats.Photograph: Layne Kennedy/CorbisAntarctica: a group of emperor penguins move along the ice on Snow Hill Island.Photograph: Paul Souders/CorbisAntarctica :An elephant seal on the beach surrounded by ice carved from Neumayer glacier in Carilita Harbor, South Georgia Island.Photograph: Paul Souders/CorbisCanada: An Inuit hunter holding a rifle scans the horizon in Nunavut.Photograph: Joanna B. Pinneo/GettyAntarctica: A group of chinstrap penguins on an iceberg in the South AtlanticPhotograph: Onne van der Wal/CorbisArctic Circle: A polar bear looks out from an iceberg in the Barents sea.Photograph: University of St Andrews/EPA
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