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A male polar bear taking its image with a camera trap.

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A winged pteropod drifting in the open water feeding on plankton.

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A walrus returning to its haulout site after feeding on clams.

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A young male polar bear leaping onto drifting pack ice.

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Nutrients from sea birds drop into the ocean nourishing sea life.

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Austfonna Ice Cap melting during the summer months.

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Dovekies returning from sea to nest after feeding on copepods.

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Atlantic walruses migrating from Russia.

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A Svalbard reindeer runs across a summer-green Arctic landscape.

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Thick billed murres diving to feed off of Bear Island.

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Without ice, a mother bear and cubs are stranded on a rocky shoreline.

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A female polar bear peering into the window of a cabin.

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A polar bear roaming the glacier ice hunting for bearded seals.

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Glacial ice succumbing to the breakdown of water and currents.

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A young walrus returning from feeding on clams.

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A bearded seal resting on shrinking sea ice.

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A large piece of glacier ice remains stranded in the sea ice.

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A polar bear walking across the thinning spring sea ice.

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