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Close-up of a thick carpet of pale whitish-grey lichen covering the ground, mixed with low green shrubs and a small young pine tree. — Thick lichen layer on a mound of a peatland at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia Laurent Orgogozo

Open peatland with low green and reddish shrubs, mosses and pale lichens in front, a flat wet grassy hollow in the middle and a line of conifers under a blue sky behind. — Northern taïga landscape at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia. Laurent Orgogozo

Aerial view of a green valley of wetland and scattered dark spruce trees, dotted with many small ponds in brown, beige, blue and black, with a winding brown stream running through it. — Colourful thermokarst lakes in Whapmagoostui, Quebec, Canada Maria Scheel

Dark cracked wall of a ruined building with an empty window frame through which pink-tinged clouds and blue sky show, and a metal ladder running up the wall on the right. — “The power of permafrost” Alexandra Loginova

Person on a rope climbing a tall ice pillar lit from behind in a dark ice cave, while a second person in red holds the rope among broken ice blocks and pale ice formations. — A Frozen Time Capsule Florian Konrad

View down a narrow cave shaft with pale smoothed rock walls, where a person in an orange suit and helmet hangs on a rope above a floor of grey ice and rock debris. — Exploring ice in the deep Renato R. Colucci

Huge mass of layered white and dirty grey ice inside a cave, surrounded by pale rock walls and rubble, with a small person in a yellow jacket standing at the right for scale. — Underground cryosphere Renato R. Colucci

Aerial view of a braided river: many turquoise and grey channels weaving across pale gravel bars between islands of green, yellow and orange vegetation. — Rahpaädno river seen from the Ladebakte mountain ( version II ) Jakob Keck

Small, perfectly round patch of grass on a pale sandbank in a shallow greenish river, below a hillside of golden autumn birch trees lit by low sun. — Perfectly round island in north Sweden/Lapland Jakob Keck

Bright turquoise river curving through a dark valley floor with small ponds, seen from a hillside of sunlit yellow-green birch trees, with grey gravel banks along the water. — Rapaädno: an arctic river Jakob Keck

Aerial view of a braided river delta: many turquoise channels winding between grey gravel bars and islands of green, yellow and orange tundra vegetation. — Rahpaädno river seen from the Ladebakte mountain Jakob Keck

Aerial view of a broad snow-covered mountain above a flat frozen plain cut by countless branching channels like blood vessels, in shades of blue and white. — Fragile Аlaska's circulatory system Tatiana Matveeva

Tall grey cliff of ice-rich frozen sediment with dark soil slumping at its base, running along a calm river shore under a clear blue sky. — Ice complex cliff in the Lena River Delta Thomas Opel

Tundra in low golden sunlight with thick mats of turf broken into blocks and slumping into a dark wet gully with a small pool, in front of smooth bare hills. — Permafrost landscape at sunset Reinhard Pienitz

Flat dry lakebed of pale mud cracked into polygons, with a small flowering plant in front, a white and red helicopter parked on the left and five people standing and kneeling in the distance under clouds. — The drying Arctic Reinhard Pienitz

Lobe of grey rock debris spreading from the foot of a snow-dusted mountain into a valley, its surface marked by curved ridges, next to a small turquoise lake and brown tundra. — Rock Glacier Stephanie Grand

Palsa mire in autumn: dark peat mounds with patches of snow among orange shrubs, red heather and small pools, with a band of golden birches and snow-dusted mountains beyond. — Palsa in autumn Michaela Ferbar

Eroding cliff of dark grey sediment with wavy, pitted surfaces and collapsed blocks topped by grass and small trees, beside a wide river. — Thawing Permafrost in Siberia Guido Grosse

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