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Spitzbergen mountain reflection in Isfjord, winter landscape, bright weather image with plenty of copy space.

Man hiking in Spitsbergen Mountain scene of the Spitsbergen Mountains in Isfjord

A scenic winter landscape featuring a blanket of snow covering the ground and snow-capped mountains in the background

Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway

Ship based tourism guest numbers is increasing year on year in Antarctica.

view on Thingvallavatn Lake, the largest natural lake in Iceland. The deepest point of the lake is at 114 meters.

Snowcapped Mountains and Beach, Trygghamna Bay, Oscar II Land, Arctic, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Europe

Coronation Island Coast Panorama. Moody twilight skyscape over the Laws Glacier and Mountain Range of the Coronation Island Coast, South Orkney Islands. Coronation Island, Laws Glacier, South Orkney Islands, South-West of South Georgia Islands, Sub Antarctica Islands, Antarctica - Administration belongs to the Antarctic Treaty System.

Here in Spitsbergen, we can see a magnificent view of the Hornsund Fjord across what seems to be a black sand beach. However, this unusual sandscape was not visible 5 years ago. Due to climate change, the massive glaciers that once covered this section of land have melted, thereby leaving behind a shoreline of black soils and rocks.

Mountains on Bylot Island taken from Pond Inlet at the northern tip of Baffin Island, Nunavut in Canada's arctic. They appear through blowing snow 20km away.

A scenic landscape of snow-covered mountains near a body of water in Svalbard

$Main reason glaciers have begun to melt is because of human activity. The rising temperature of the Earth is the primary reason glaciers have started to melt more, and this climate change can be directly tied back to human activity. Glaciers are practically on the edge of extinction. \nCarbon dioxide emissions are one big culprit. The mass amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases produced by human business, transportation, deforestation, and fossil fuel usage, rise into the air where they stop the heat from the sun from bouncing back out to space. As a result, temperatures rise, and glaciers melt.\nAnother reason for ice melt is the warming of the oceans. These large bodies of water absorb 90% of the Earth's total warmth, meaning that sea ice floating in the ocean are subject to higher temperatures and naturally melt as a result.\nHuman activity is not responsible for all the causes of glacier melt. In some areas, complex interactions between wind and ocean circulation patterns have helped to push naturally occurring warm water closer to the edge of the ice. Still, as a result of all the broader climate change effects, glaciers are rapidly melting with huge chunks falling off into the sea, while elsewhere the ice begins to retreat to land. \nThe biggest and most notable impact of these glaciers melting is in the rise of sea level. In total the sea has risen by 2.7 centimeters since the 60s and the world's glaciers still contain enough to raise the ocean by another half a meter, which could directly threaten many cities in coastal regions. As a result of these rising sea levels, coastal erosion has also increased.$

Early morning light on mountains and lake with mist rising

Arctic spring in south Spitsbergen. Around the fjord Hornsund.

Mountain lake on highland valley covered by snow

Hinlopen Strait, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

This picture shows the bay of Ittoqqortoormiit in Scoresby Fjord, on October 2008. The picture was taken from a helicopter during landing.

Expedition to northern Svalbard archipelago by sailing boat, reflection

$Arctic landscape with cloudy sky.\nHammerfest - Norway.$

Antarctic Peninsula - Antarctic Ocean in moody Sunrise Twilight. Coastal view towards huge Glaciers and Mountain Range over the calm Antarctic Ocean - Antarctic Sound under colourful moody dawn skyscape. Antarctica Ocean - Antarctica Sound, Antartica Peninsula, Antarctica.

Snowy winter landscape at the shore of on of the islands of the Lofoten archipel near Heamingsvear in Norway The mountains are covered in snow and there is ice floating on the water.

Scenic view of fjord in winter at sunset in Iceland

Marine background. Blue cold waters of the Mongolian lake Tolbo-Nuur. Snow covered mountains and a glacier.

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