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Shortlisted: Arhhangelsk region, Russia, March 2021. Researchers weigh an anaesthetised Polar bear on Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean during the Umka 2021 expedition organised by the Russian Geographical Society. Taking part in the expedition are experts from Russian Arctic National Park, the NN Zubov State Oceanographic Institute, and institutes and research centres of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the Geophysical Survey Federal Research Centre, the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, the AN Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and the Melnikov Permafrost Institute. (Photo by Grigorov Gavriil/CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2021)
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