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Climate Change and People

Map showing Ilulissat Ice Fiord with the World's fastest moving glacier (19 metres per day) which is rapidly receding because of climate change. Greenland

Johnny Weyiouanna & Roberta T. at the site of their former home, eroded by the sea. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003

Shishmaref, the eroded north coast, dangerous undercut and old powerlines, now cut. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003

Dead Polar Bear cub on snow along the shoreline, with tourists. Torellneset, Svalbard

C130 equipped with skis on the skiway at Patriot Hills. ALE staff load it with American Scientists equipment. Antarctica

Modern houses built on stilts in the Yupik Eskimo village of New Chaplino. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. 2010

Scientists prepare a special balloon to study Ozone. McMurdo. Antarctica

Ukrainian scientist Igor Gvozdovskyy adjusts the Ozone Spectrometer before taking an Ozone reading at Vernadsky Research Station. Antarctica

Woman scientist with an ice core, and core in drill. drilling on the polar plateau. Antarctica

Nacreous, Mother of Pearl, or PSC, Polar Stratospheric Clouds. Believed to be ice and Nitric acid, these react to produce clorine & bromine, from CFCs, which directly destroy ozone molecules. Antarctica.

Device on the Camoplast to enable Chilean scientists to survey under-ice lakes with radar. Patriot Hills. Antarctica

The town sign of Monchegorsk with the chimneys from nickel smelting behind. Kola Peninsula, NW Russia. 2005

Inuit hunter Jakob jumps a lead in summer sea ice. His huskies will follow. Qeqertat, NW Greenland. 1980

Inuit hunter jumps across pancake ice to get ashore. Savissivik, N.W. Greenland. 1991

Inuit hunters watch as huskies pick their way to shore across new tidal ice. Savissivik, NW Greenland. 1991

An Inuit hunter rescues his dogs That have fallen through the thin sea ice. Savissivik. N.W. Greenland. 1991

Inuit hunter, Kavavow Kiguktak, jumps from one ice floe to another. Ellesmere Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Uniam, an Innu hunter, checks the thickness of ice on a lake with his axe. Southern Labrador, Canada. 1997

The native community of Uelen is pounded by heavy seas during an autumn storm.Less sea ice in recent years has resulted in more storm damage to the buildings. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004

Passengers on the Professor Mulchanov look for a distant polar bear in Brepollen. Hornsund. Svalbard