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300 viewsAreas that contain much permafrost can look barren. But plants and animals prosper here in the summer days, when the top layer of frozen ground thaws. The caribou in this photograph, in the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, are migrating in the early fall.
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99 viewsCaribou pass by on frozen tundra.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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226 viewsThree stone inukshuks on the hillside behind Qaanaaq are often used as trail markers or to herd caribou for hunting purposes.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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205 viewsA stone inukshuk on the hillside above Qaanaaq is still in the shade as the first light of dawn catches the icebergs in the frozen fjord.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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109 viewsA caribou that I spotted on a hike. There were also herds of musk-oxen that I could not get close enough to photograph, which are the other primary meat source in Greenland.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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217 viewsThis small herd of Guanaco, a species similar to the llama, was photographed in Chile.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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