Photo Gallery Scenes from a Hot Artic
The Arctic is heating up more rapidly than any other part of the Earth. Soon, parts of the region may be permanently ice free.
Calving icebergs: global warming is hitting the Arctic hardest.
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Zackenberg in northeast Greenland. The island is about 20 percent ice-free.
Foto: Toke T. Høye
Varying shades of blue rivers meander through the Greenland ice cap in this aerial photograph from August 2005.
Foto: AP
Summer in Greenland. Climate change is already affecting vegetation.
Foto: Toke T. Høye
The inlet outside the city of Ilulissat on Greenland is one place ice has visibly drawn back.
Foto: AP/ POLFOTO
Houses are painted in bright colors in the town of Ilulissat in western Greenland.
Foto: REUTERS
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