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A whale sign greets visitors to the Northern Lights restaurant in Barrow. Many local buisnesses and homes uses whale related decorations and adornments and their abundance is testament to the importance of the whale in the towns Inupiat culture.

A bone from a Bowhead whale skull rests on the arctic shore outside of Barrow, Alaska as monument to the defining role that whaling plays for this coastal community.

Production operator Brian Stevens walks through one of the gas modules at British Petroleum's self contained oil and gas facility at Endicott, Alaska, located eight miles east of Prudhoe Bay. The facility is situated on a gravel island in the…

British Petroleum's self contained oil and gas facility at Endicott, Alaska, located eight miles east of Prudhoe Bay, is situated on a gravel island in the Beaufort Sea at the end of a 1 1/2 mile causway. North Slope residents fear a Prudhoe-style…

Arctic fox tracks dot the shore as Lucy Pikok fishes for tom cod and devil fish on the frozen shallows of the Beaufort Sea outside Barrow, Alaska.

Aerial photo of the Brooks Mountain Range on the southern edge of the North Slope Borough en route from Fairbanks to Barrow. The story is about how the proposed oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's north coast, may affect the…

Icebergs float through the last rays of light in the Ross Sea off of Antarctica, Feb. 13, 2007.

A tabular iceberg reflects the midnight sun in the Antarctic Summer in the Ross Sea, Feb. 13, 2007.

Antarctica Birds fly past an iceberg being battered by waves in the Ross Sea, Feb. 6, 2007.

A group of Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) getting ready to dive into the Ross Sea, Feb. 8, 2007.