Ingo Arndt / Researcher Hauke Flores watching for birds and seals from the top of Icebreaker Polarstern. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The...

Francois Savigny / Polar bear and cub asleep on drifting iceberg, summer, Svalbard, Norway

Luis Quinta / Imperial blackfish (Schedophilus ovalis) sheltering under discarded fishing ropes drifting off Pico island, Azores, Portugal, May.

Luis Quinta / Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) near the surface, Santa Maria Island, Azores, September.

Konstantin Mikhailov / Desert landscape with lakes in Pamir's Plateau at 4000m, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan. June 2014.

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea.

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea.

Florian Möllers / Blue iceberg drifting off Brasvellbreen glacier, Austfonna, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012

Floris van Breugel / Tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata) drift with the current in the calm turquiose waters of a lagoon in Ofu, American Samoa. The window of sky is called Snell's Window, caused by refraction of...

Martha Holmes / Edge of large piece of ice sheet drifting in sea. Antarctic Peninsula. February 2008.

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in a drifting abandoned net, Mediterranean Sea. (Winner of the One Earth Award, WPY Competition 2010 )

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Gooseneck barnacles (Lepas anatifera) on a drifting rope, Pico, Azores, Portugal, June 2009