Watch short films made by photographer Nick Cobbing

Drifting With the Ice -short film made for National Geographic Magazine

For five months, a team of researchers drifted with polar ice, their ship tethered to an ice floe as they collected data to help them better understand how the loss of sea ice will affect the planet. The air above the Arctic Ocean has warmed on average about 5°F in the past century—more than twice the global average—and sea ice covers less and less of it. Most researchers study the ice during the summer. This team, battling bone-chilling cold, tracked it from when it formed in winter until it started melting in spring. And occasionally found time to kick a soccer ball around the floe.

Walking on the Sea -Marie Elise goes to the Arctic

Looking at the Arctic environment through the eyes of Marie Elise, a young woman from belgium who gets a job on an expedition ship going to Arctic Svalbard.

Fram visits Port Lockroy

A short film made for expedition company Hurtigruten, showing a day in the life of the polar expedition ship Fram in Antarctica.