Old Ice still waters The exhausted faces of friends

The exhausted faces of friends working in an ancient henna mill

windswept coastline

and care for one another

A rose-ringed parakeet peeks out of its nest in a tree trunk

Old Ice still waters The exhausted faces of friendsA storm front rises over a rugged and weathered glacial cap stained by blue and pink Snow Algae, Cryoalgae This region of the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone one of the highest . temperature increases in the world over the past 50 years. The mean annual temperature has risen by >3C and has been responsible for a significant thinning of ice caps, recession of glaciers and break up of ice shelves Galindez Island, Argentine Islands, Faraday Islands,