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Arctic Photo of the Week-Egg Hunt

Arctic Photo of the Week-Egg Hunt

This Easter egg hunt on the frozen Arctic Ocean at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut will make all other egg hunts across the Earth pale in comparison. What a way for the kids to celebrate Easter! I'm sure there were many polar bear monitors around as well!

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Arctic Aerial Images Encouraging & Awe Inspiring

Arctic Aerial Images Encouraging & Awe Inspiring

Mario Tama photographed these breathless Arctic photos from a Lockheed P-3 accompanying a NASA crew carrying out Operation Icebridge, an operation initiated to measure Earth's glaciers and ice sheets. The stillness, colors and textures of the Arctic landscape left...

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A Pair of Red Foxes in Churchill

A Pair of Red Foxes in Churchill

This classic shot of a pair of red foxes at the opening to a secluded den in Churchill signals the start of spring. It will be interesting to see what bounty of wildlife appears in Churchill this spring and summer after a prolonged and ferocious winter. Stay posted...

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Report from Churchill: November 6,2010

Temperatures moved up over the freezing mark with sunny skies overhead. This slight warm-up, somewhat unusual, is a reprieve from the wind- chills of the past week. Guide Sandra's group was out on the land in CWMA and early on viewed a male polar bear striding...

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Report from Churchill: November 5, 2010

Report from Churchill: November 5, 2010

On a cool partly sunny day, guide Brad's rover driver positioned his travelers near the tundra lodge in view of two polar bears coming towards each other, feeling each others presence and finally ending up on the gloss ice surface of a giant thermokarst. In the early...

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Report from Churchill: November 4, 2010

Report from Churchill: November 4, 2010

Winds calmed down to occasional moderate gusts as the windswept tundra glowed with shimmering ice crystals and nice light reflecting off the frozen thermokarsts. Guide Melissa brought her group to the vicinity of the tundra lodge where frequent sparring thrilled all....

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