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Gallery 1: second place | A melting ice sheet with massive waterfalls running off it (Austfonna glacier, Norway). This glacier on Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard archipelago is Europe’s third-largest glacier by area and volume and with a glacier wall of about 200km, it is an impressive sight. During recent decades, every month has brought new record-high temperatures in the Arctic, and the ice cap on Nordaustlandet is melting at high speed. The meltwater starts as small streams but eventually gathers in larger, almost river-like systems, that finally pour off the steep wall. (Photo by Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com/LDY Agency)
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