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Teamwork

A research worker transpose a sample to a rinse bucket at West Long Lake , Nebraska in the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge , in January 2008 . The sample was collected using a rod - climb Ekman dredge , for sampling benthal invertebrates .

Fractures in the ice

Ted Ozersky , an ecologist and prof at the University of Minnesota in Duluth , stands on the readable ice at Lake Baikal , Siberia .

Journey to the center

A group of researchers walk out to sample the deepest part of a prairie chuckhole shallow lake in west - fundamental Minnesota , in an arena known as the " Prairie Pothole neighborhood " of North America .

Data download

Photo of Leah Domine , a researcher at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota , downloading data from a sonde — a tool containing measurement sensors — that was deploy under the ice in a prairie pothole shallow lake , in the so - call " Prairie Pothole region " of North America , in west - central Minnesota .

Reflections

This photo is a rumination of geologist George Swann , an associate prof in Palaeoclimatology at the University of Nottingham , sampling from a hole drilled through frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia .

Geometric ice

fall ice spring on Toolik Lake , Alaska , September 21 , 2013 .

Ridges and waves

Ice forming on Lake Ediza in Sierra Nevada , California , on July 8 , 2006 .

Sample taker

Jade Lawrence , a doctorial nominee in geology at Louisiana State University , drill holes in the crank in Lake E6 near Toolik Lake in Alaska , on May 11 , 2013 .

From A to B

Steve Sadro , an assistant prof of environmental skill at the University of California , Davis , deplume a sled across Lake Toolik , Alaska on May 28 , 2013 .

Learning the trade

Winter sample distribution by undergrad on Emerald Lake in Sierra Nevada , California , on March 28 , 2013 .

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A group of penguins dives from the ice into the water

A large sponge and a cluster of anenomes are seen among other lifeforms beneath the George IV Ice Shelf.

An astronaut photo of a lake in the desert that is half red and half green surrounded by lots of dark circular dots

a researcher bends over and points to the boundary between a body of water and ice

A picture of a large blue lake with a hilly, forested shoreline

Large swirls of green seen on the ocean�s surface from space

A 400-acre wildfire burns in the Cleveland National Forest in this view from Orange on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

A giant sand artwork adorns New Brighton Beach to highlight global warming and the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference being held in November in Glasgow.

An image taken from the International Space Station in 2011 shows Earthshine on the moon.

Ice calving from the fracture zone of a glacier crashes into the ocean in Greenland. Melting of such glacial ice is leading to the warping of Earth�s crust.

Red represents record-warmest temperatures. That�s a lot of red.

A lidar image shows the outline of an ancient city hidden in a Guatemalan forest

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant