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Still image from: All the Answers: Vampires, Antarctica, the International Space Station

A woman against an illustrated background with penguins. Spanish captions.

A polar bear in a zoo setting. Spanish captions.

Mountain peaks and slopes covered in snow with blue sky in the distance. Caption. We just don't know what's under all that ice.

Still image from: Dog Loves Books: Dog Loves Record Breakers

Herd of reindeer passes through a snowy clearing with tall trees in the distant background. Some reindeer lean down, pushing their snouts into the snow.

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. World's Coldest Places."

Still image from: Go Jetters: Go Jetter Heroes--Polar Explorers

Antarctica landscape with tents poking up through snow and an airplane taking off in distance. Caption. Heather as narrator. Camp is much less quiet when the wind blows.

Closeup of melting ice. Spanish captions.

Herd of caribou graze and rest in a snowy, blue-tinted landscape. Caption. Caribou have amazingly warm fur.

Inuit woman with long braids smiles and leans forward as she carries child in hide pouch on her back. Caption. It was the same 50 years ago.

Inuit man works inside hollowed out snow structure while a second person assists outside. Caption. Other people would place the bricks carefully.

Blurry figure holds a paddle in a long canoe out on the water. Caption. He would also have to learn how to paddle a canoe.

Bear standing in a river of swiftly moving water. Caption: Bears are not born with fishing skills.

Color illustration of men moving supplies through snow beside a ship with a torn sail. Spanish caption. Al año, se esfumó todo esperanza.

Illustration of a ship with 3 masts underwater. Caption: A pirate ship that's sunk.

An ice covered region. Caption: Svalbard Norway. Latitude, 74 degrees to 81 degrees North. Longitude, 10 degrees to 35 degrees East. Average W I.

Inuk man wearing a fur coat walks away from a hunting shelter, hilly terrain covered in snow. Caption. Grandfathers. Are you ready, Nuligak?

Still image from: Ocean Treks With Jeff Corwin: Juneau--The Heart of Alaska

Penguins on ice. Caption: at more than three feet tall and as much as 80 pounds.

A penguin jumping from ice.

Person working on a large vertical sheet of ice. Caption: For them, time on the ice is part of the job.

Helicopter hovering over a rocky, snow covered landscape. Caption: Traveling by helicopter, plane, and snowmobile,

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.

Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.

Person holding a cylindrical piece of ice. Caption: This one is based on the ratio of heavy to light hydrogen.

Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,

Aerial view of ice breaking apart as it flows onto land from an ice shelf. Caption: Ice flows from the land over the fjord,

Stacked shelves of cylindrical metal canisters. Caption: (Twickler) This freezer contains more than 10 miles of ice cores

Three researchers in parkas with equipment on a sheet of ice. Caption: and a team are here to study algae,

Small furry animal perched on two legs in woody scrub with no leaves. Caption: This is the Arctic ground squirrel.

Cross section of a sheet of ice on a rock shelf. The ice has a pool of melted water that travels from the surface, down to the rock, and then to the ocean. Caption: for 100,000 years are now undergoing dynamic changes.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Glaciers Change the World

Closeup of a ship's bow surrounded by gray ocean. Title card reads, "The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics."

Low closeup of an Eskimo woman with dark straight hair and a headband worn at the forehead. Caption. Body decoration and tattoos were also used by Eskimos.

Still image from: The Hunt: In the Grip of the Seasons

The magic school bus on arctic ice with walrus outside. Caption: Don’t mean to be rude, but you're too heavy!

Frigid water with ice floating in it buts against a sheet of ice. Spanish captions.

Person in the open cockpit of a small plane. Caption: (narrator) The route stretches about 3,000 miles

A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.

Person in a kayak next to glaciers reaching up towards the sheet of ice. Caption: (male) The Vatnajökull glacier covers about 10% of all of Iceland.