Earth - Cryosphere and Polar Regions - Life in the Polar Regions

There is twice as much carbon in Arctic soils ...

Walruses in the Arctic spend about half their ...

Northern fur seal on rocks at the shore.

A sleepy ringed seal naps on the Arctic ice.

This polar bear adult and two cubs may look ...

This image of a pink fish was taken by a ...

Arctic cod eat zooplankton like copepods, and ...

Amphipods are also small crustaceans.

This copepod is a small crustacean, a relative ...

Do you see the orange band in the ice core? The ...

Single-celled algae called diatoms (from the ...

An Emperor Penguin dives into the ocean through ...

Adelie Penguin

Antarctic krill

Antarctic Fur Seal