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Passersby react to a pair of hands emerging from Oak Bluff' Harbor on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 27, 2009, with a sign calling attention to the effects of global warming. Greenpeace activists deployed the message to urge President Obama, vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, to take leadership to stop climate change..

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A woman leans out of a small boat to take a photo of a pair of hands in Oak Bluff' Harbor on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 27, 2009, with a sign calling attention to the effects of global warming. Greenpeace activists deployed the message to urge President Obama, vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, to take leadership to stop climate change..

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Sensing food, a polar bear sniffs the air near the Arctic Sunrise in northern Greenland. The bear stayed in the area for nearly 10 minutes before leaving to hunt a seal in the distance. The loss of the sea ice on which the polar depends threatens its existance.

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A polar bear in drifting and unconsolidated sea ice in Kane Basin, off Cape Clay, northern Greenland, at a position of 79 57.359N 064 51.120W.

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A polar bear photographed from the deck of the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, off Cape Clay, northern Greenland. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice, using it to raise their young, to travel and as a platform for hunting seals -their primary food source.

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A polar bear photographed from the deck of the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, in drifting and unconsolidated sea ice in Kane Basin, off Cape Clay, northern Greenland, at a position of 79 57.359N 064 51.120W.

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Babu Bhaskaran Pillai of India, the cook on the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise, on an expedition to Greenland. A team of scientists is on a 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.

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Mountains on Ellesmere Island on the Canadian side of Kennedy Channel which runs between Greenland and Canada, the bright red colour suggesting that there is iron in the rock which has scattered down the mountain side, aided by gravity, wind and melt water run-off and oxidised.

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Jason Box adjusts a remote time-lapse cameras high on the cliffs on the south east side of Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest and most northerly glaciers. These provide a unique and revealing insight into how glacial ice breaks and drifts to sea. The installation of several time lapse cameras on Petermann and other glaciers in north Greenland is a joint initiative between Greenpeace and Extreme Ice Survey (EIS). It is hoped that they will give a clear picture of the process by which the glacier breaks and how parts of it drift out to sea. A team of scientists assisted by experts in ice logistics, intend to document its ongoing disintegration. Satellite images show that an expanse larger than New York's Manhattan island is ready to break off from Petermann Glacier.

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