Travel Tales
Photographs from an Antarctica Expedition
I have a fixation with ice and the world’s cold places. I think it’s mostly because I’m convinced that winter is an endangered “species.” That’s why the poles have always called to me.
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Videos
Video: Fata Morgana Over a Newfoundland Iceberg
We’re all familiar with the concept of desert mirages, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of the sky or distant objects.
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Nature & Wildlife
Will Climate Change Increase Antarctica’s Biodiversity—Or Diminish It?
We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the world’s polar bears: according to the U.S. Geological Survey, two-thirds of them could disappear by 2060, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Nature Photography
Inside Antarctica: The White Continent
My Antarctica guiding season begins with a classic Antarctica trip across the surging seas of the Drake Passage, followed by exquisite landscapes, absurdly hilarious penguins, and of course, the one thing that never ceases to surprise me: ice.
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Nature Photography
A Shifting Landscape: Images of Greenland’s Ice
With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.
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News & More
An Iceberg Larger than Chicago is Born in Antarctica
Breaking news in Antarctica this week: the 2-year-old crack in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (nicknamed PIG) has finally given out. The PIG calved a new iceberg larger than the city of Chicago in the Amundsen Sea. The iceberg measures 278 square miles, which is 8 times the size of the island of Manhattan.