Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

A pack of dogs pull a sledge over the winter ice sea in Disko Bay. Over the past 30 years, the annual average of Artic sea-ice extent has decreased by about 8%, or nearly one million square kilometres...

Fishing runabouts trapped in the winter ice at Ilulissat port. From December until May the port is frozen and fishing with boats is not possible.

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

An aerial view of the snow capped peaks that form the Greenland ice sheet.

Sledge dogs (Huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, wait in the snow for their next trip or meal. There are about 1000 dogs in Ilulissat but that is obly about a third of th...

A fisherman returns from a trip onto to the frozen sea ice in Disko Bay dragging a catch of halibut behind him. The trawlers in the background will be trapped in the winter ice until the spring thaw.

The Zion Church, built in the late 18th century, for the evangelical Lutheran population (the predominant religion of the non-inuit population). At the tt was the largest man-made structure in Greenla...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay towrds Qequertasuaq island. The glacier passes through the Ilulissat Icefjord and annually it drains about 6.5...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), float in Disko Bay. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is responsible for about 10% of all Green...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

The east coast of Greenland, which falls within the Artic Polar Circle, in June as the ice sea begins to melt. It has also been suggested that by 2050 climate change will result in the Arctic Sea bein...

The west coast of Greenland, which falls within the Artic Polar Circle, in summer as the ice sea continues its annual melt. The increasing rate of melt from the Greenland ice sheet, which has a signif...

Fishermen catching halibut manouvre their boats among the icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay. The glacier travels through the Ilulissat Icefjord...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), float in Disko Bay during a summer storm. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is responsible for...

Sea ice off the east coast of Greenland. Over the past 30 years, the annual average of Artic sea-ice extent has decreased by about 8%, or nearly one million square kilometres, an area larger than all...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

A huge crack cleaves the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands of ice. Locals claim that such an occurrence is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been suggested...

Icebergs floating towards Disko Bay from the Ilulissat Icefjord. Increasing temperatures have led to greater numbers of icebergs in summertime as more ice blocks calve off the main flow. The glacier i...

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

A huge crack cleaves the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands of ice. Locals claim that such an occurrence is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been suggested...

A man training his dogs on the sea ice for a forthcoming dog sledding competition, Greenland's national sport. On this day, even in the frozen winter, they cannot go far out onto the frozen sea becaus...

A pack of dogs pulls a fisherman and gis sledge as he heads out into Disko Bay. On this day, even in the frozen winter, they cannot go far out onto the frozen sea because the ice's thickness is not su...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

Sledge dogs (Huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, lie curled up in the snow. There are about 2000 dogs in Ilulissat but that is only about a third of the number that there...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet. Incre...

The glacial steppes of Olkhon Island which has an unique ecosystem.

The glacial steppes of Olkhon Island which has an unique ecosystem.

A road through the glacial steppes of Olkhon Island which has an unique ecosystem.

A road through the glacial steppes of Olkhon Island which has an unique ecosystem.

Village of Peschanka on Olkhon Island.

Village of Peschanka on Olkhon Island.

Cow walk onto frozen Lake Baikal to drink water.

Tourists after swimming in an ice hole at the port of a closed fish factory in Khuzhir on Olkhon Island.

Tourists after swimming in an ice hole at the port of a closed fish factory in Khuzhir on Olkhon Island.

Tourists are travelling by foot along the Ice of Baikal lake. During the winter period, the ice surface of Baikal becomes a main transport route between different settlements and the island.

Maloe More (the Small Sea), a strait in Lake Baikal, near Olkhon island.

A hovercraft on Maloe More (the Small Sea), a strait in Lake Baikal, heading to Olkhon island.

Shaman rock, cape Burkhan on Olkhon island.

Hotels and recreation centres on Olkhon island which have been built illegally in a water protection zone near a Shaman wood. Most of these constructions do not have treatment facilities. The effluent...

Listvyanka, one of the many tourist centres built illegally beside Lake Baikal. Most such developments do not have sewage treatment facilities. The effluent goes straight into Lake Baikal.

Listvyanka, one of the many tourist centres built illegally beside Lake Baikal. Most such developments do not have sewage treatment facilities. The effluent goes straight into Lake Baikal.

Tourists skating on an ice rink made on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal in Listvyanka, one of the many tourist centres built illegally beside Lake Baikal. Most such developments do not have sewage t...

A timber truck carries trees from a felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

A timber truck carries trees from a felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

A timber truck carries trees from a felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

Logs made ready for transport to a timber plant at a fellings site in the Irkutsk taiga.

Elena Bayandaevna, an indigenous Buryat activist, checks the paperwork presented by a logging company near her native village Zurtsagan. The area is a part of Lake Baikal protected ecological zone. Th...

Residents from villages close to a forest site that has been subject to illegal logging saw the felling residue for firewood. Logging residue accounts for about 70% of the felling and is not used in t...

Residents from villages close to a forest site that has been subject to illegal logging saw the felling residue for firewood. Logging residue accounts for about 70% of the felling and is not used in t...

Residents from villages close to a forest site that has been subject to illegal logging saw the felling residue for firewood. Logging residue accounts for about 70% of the felling and is not used in t...

A timber truck carries trees from a felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

A timber truck carries trees from a felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

Dismantling work at a Chinese water bottling plant.

Dismantling work at a Chinese water bottling plant.

New residential housing in a village on the shore of Lake Baikal.

An aerial view of a village on the shore of Lake Baikal.

A felling site in the taiga of Irkutsk oblast.

Dismantling work at a Chinese water bottling plant.

A waste dump near the village of Kultuk. The landfill is illegally located in the water protection zone in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal.

A waste dump near the village of Kultuk. The landfill is illegally located in the water protection zone in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal.

A waste dump near the village of Kultuk. The landfill is illegally located in the water protection zone in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal.

A waste dump near the village of Kultuk. The landfill is illegally located in the water protection zone in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal.

The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, built on the shore of Lake Baikal in 1966 and closed in 2013. About seven million tons of industrial waste, lignin sludge and black liquor are still in storage ponds...

The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, built on the shore of Lake Baikal in 1966 and closed in 2013. About seven million tons of industrial waste, lignin sludge and black liquor are still in storage ponds...

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen foliage along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen foliage along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Swings and bench in a children's playground seen through a broken window.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen banks along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.

Frozen foliage along the Angara River which never freezes because of its fast flow rate.