Arctic ice is melting at a record pace, suggesting the region may be ice-free during summer within 30 years. Photograph: Alexandra Kobalenko/Getty

Methane bubbles of Alaska

Summer’s methane is trapped in the freezing Alaskan lakes; in springtime it will be released into the air - for now it produces striking photographs such as this.

A Homeless Polar Bear in London Featuring Jude Law and Radiohead

Greenpeace - Save the Arctic

Greenpeace Activists plant flag on Arctic seabed and

actor Ezra Miller reminds us why.

4 amateur explorers including actor & musician Ezra Miller

to plant flag in Arctic on seabed in fight to protect the ocean

Attached to the flag will be a capsule containing more than two and a half million signatures calling for a sanctuary in the uninhabited area around the pole - Join them!

Greenpeace video

NASA Predicted: Arctic Ocean Could be Mostly Ice Free in 2013

Arctic Ocean oil and gas reserves

Energy giant Total has warned against drilling for crude oil in Arctic waters, according to a report in British newspaper the Financial Times. Total’s chief executive, Christophe de Margerie, said damage caused by a potential oil spill in such an environmentally sensitive area would be disastrous

Underwater Adventure in the Arctic Ocean -

The Extremes of IMAX 3D Film making

HD: Arctic Melt Time Lapse - Nature’s Great Events: The Great Melt

Superb footage and then to think ice melt has speeded up ever since…

NatGeoHD Deep Sea Under The Pole

I love this footage - stunning from the Arctic Blue Sea.