Images and Media: Large version (with annotations)

This website is an ARCHIVED version of NOAA Climate.gov as of June 25, 2025.
Content is not being updated or maintained, and some links may no longer work.

File name: Large version (with annotations)

Original Resolution (pixels): 1200 × 792

File Size: 667 KB (MIME Type: image/jpeg)

Date Published: December 15, 2015

View image full size

Download file

Image caption

Photo illustrates one of the major impacts on walruses of sea ice retreat: thousands of walruses hauled out on a barrier island offshore of Alaska’s northern coast in late summer 2014. Photo by Corey Accardo, NOAA/NMFS.