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"Black glacier" in Greenland

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Photo taken July 20, 2012, from a helicopter chartered by a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole shows a glacier in Qaanaaq, Greenland, which looks black.

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"Black glacier" in Greenland

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Teruo Aoki, laboratory head at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency, a member of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole, examines a glacier which looks black in Qaanaaq, Greenland, on July 20, 2012.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - "Red snow" is shown on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic on July 17, 2012. A Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observed the same day an area of around 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Members of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observe "red snow" on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic on July 17, 2012. They spotted an area of about 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Members of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observe "red snow" on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic on July 17, 2012. They spotted an area of about 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Photo taken July 17, 2012, shows "red snow" on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic. A Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observed the same day an area of around 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.