This underwater picture shows a female killer whale with scars near its dorsal fin, patrolling near Skjervøy Fjord, in northern Norway within the Arctic Circle, on November 11, 2024. Dozens of killer whales and their clans follow schools of herring gathering in the fjords of northern Norway from October to January, on the hunt. More frequent northerly sightings suggest that orcas are learning to adapt to the rapidly melting waters of the Arctic Ocean. #

Several hundred reindeer swim across Jøkelfjord, on their way to their winter pastures in northern Norway, on September 14, 2023. The herds cross fjords, climb mountains, and swim between glaciers before arriving at their winter pastures in the Norwegian Far North. The Sami follow their animals by quad, on foot or by boat. #

An enormous iceberg drifts along the Scoresby Sound Fjord in Eastern Greenland, seen on August 16, 2023. At the time, the French National Center for Scientific Research was undertaking an expedition to explore Greenland's isolated fjords, the planet's largest fjord system, which remains dramatically understudied. #

The Inuit professional bear hunter Martin Madsen, 28, closes his eyes as he rides his dog sled over very soft snow, back from the ice edge where sea ice meets the open ocean, in Ittoqqortoormiit on the frozen Scoresby Sound Fjord on April 25, 2024. The village of Ittoqqortoormiit, with its colorful houses and 350 inhabitants, is located near the Strait of Scoresby, the world's largest fjord system, along the east coast of Greenland. All the men are hunters—bears if they're professionals, seals, narwhals, or musk oxen if they're amateurs. It's an ancestral way of life handed down from generation to generation. But over the past 20 years, climate change and quotas have gradually jeopardized a tradition that ensures the survival of Inuit families. #

Vapor rises from the water around a historic tri-master charter sailing ship moored in a port of Oslo, Norway, on January 5, 2024, as morning sun paints the scene in golden light. #

A beluga whale swims in Hudson Bay, outside Churchill, northern Canada, on August 9, 2022. Under the slightly murky surface where the waters of the Churchill River meet Hudson Bay, the belugas have a great time in front of amazed tourists, several thousand of whom come every year to the small town of Churchill to observe them. #

Merete Gaup, the mother of Sami herder Ante Niillas Gaup, dressed in traditional Sami attire, lassoes young reindeer to identify them with a mark on their ear, in Reinfjord, Norway, on September 15, 2023. #

Angelita Eriksen, a co-founder of Lofoten Seaweed, picks up winged kelp in the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean in Vareid, near Flakstad, in the Lofoten Islands on March 4, 2024. The daughter of a Norwegian fisherman, Eriksen joined forces with New Zealand-born Tamara Singer, whose Japanese mother served seaweed with almost every meal, to start the company Lofoten Seaweed, which specializes in harvesting and preparing seaweed for the food industry. The pair focus on about 10 types of seaweed, long eaten in Japan and ever more popular in Europe for their nutritional qualities. #