Ada, who lives in arid village, sees that place used to be a lake has dried up.

A memorial for an ancient glacier that will soon be gone, shared from the perspective of two little brothers.

Since 1987, Karin and Lennart watched and recorded the weather every third hour, day and night, seven days a week, every day of the year, from their station by the lighthouse in Falsterbo, Sweden. Earning “a lousy salary, and a fantastic life” they remained steadfast through childbirth, illness and snowstorms—not missing a single observation in 36 years—while thousands of stations around the world fell to automation. Told through the eyes of their daughter Maja, this extraordinary and heartwarming love story shows lasting happiness exists in profound connection with nature and everyday rhythms.

An exploration of the Arctic’s awe-inspiring beauty, ‘Arctic Ice: Under the Midnight Sun’ is a love letter to an ecosystem on which we all depend, and one which is rapidly disappearing.

Photographer James Balog returns to Iceland to bring the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project to a close.