Also no seal

No seals

Then seals?

Then, do you have seals?

And we sit down, and that's when Goran said to me,

So my project is along the Northwest Atlantic.

(Laughter)

This was a bear I sat with for a while on the shores.

I realized that there were two big environmental issues I couldn't ignore.

So you can't actually see them, but it was breathtaking, believe me.

And the ice that is there is quite thin.

Aside from no penguins and seals Even bacteria cannot survive here its truly a vey cold area

The first was that these animals continue to be hunted, killed with hakapiks at about eight, 15 days old.

(Laughter)

'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle.

Here's a picture of me and my friend, Chris, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

She's about to let me know she's too frustrated with me.

The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.

These special characteristics explain its preference for still hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).

We Americans bought Alaska in the 1850s. It's called Seward's folly.

Those are seals from many countries being released who are sampling underneath the ice sheets and giving us temperature data of oceanographic quality on both poles.

So we come around the cove in our little Zodiac boat, and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

Being active at night may relate to the behavior of seals, which feed at night on various fish that come up closer to the surface.

And one day I came in and a woman who had lost a child was talking to a robot in the shape of a baby seal.

This is a photo that I made showing one of these pups that's only about five or seven days old still has a little bit of the umbilical cord on its belly that has fallen in because of the thin ice, and the mother is frantically trying to push it up to breathe and to get it back to stable purchase.

I think the bigger problem for harp seals is the loss of sea ice due to global warming.

Snow petrels nest on the icebergs and feed on the sea life nearby.

I read that last year the pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Patterns of freeze up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.

And he was so full, he was so happy and so fat eating this seal, that, as I approached him about 20 feet away to get this picture, his only defense was to keep eating more seal.

The problem is that these pups need a stable platform of solid ice in order to nurse from their moms.

The story I wanted to do initially was just a small focus to look at the few weeks each year where these animals migrate down from the Canadian arctic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to engage in courtship, mating and to have their pups.

So, this man's grandfather was not intimidated by the Arctic night or the blizzard that was blowing.

I wanted to do this story from both above and below, to make pictures like this that show one of these little pups making its very first swim in the icy 29 degree water.

Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty four hours of light, this does not apply.

And we know that the Inuit killed the Norse and, probably of greater importance, may have blocked access to the outer fjords, on which the Norse depended for seals at a critical time of the year.